Without pain, how could we know joy?
JOHN GREENMaybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
More John Green Quotes
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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It is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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Whatever you’re worried about, you’re bigger than the worries.
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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
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