When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
JOHN GREENSometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
More John Green Quotes
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Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
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Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
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What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence.
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You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
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You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
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I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
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What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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Whatever you’re worried about, you’re bigger than the worries.
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The good times and the bad times both will pass.
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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
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Life works best when we think of people as people.
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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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Don’t make stuff because you want to make money – it will never make you enough money.
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The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
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The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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We all use the future to escape the present.
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My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
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It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
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When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you’re living a less performed life.
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