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John Green

Maybe there is something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.
JOHN GREEN

Afraid Hurt Love Matter
When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.
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Break Break Up Prevention Togetherness
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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Couple Fall Fall In Love Love Reading Sleep
We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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Awesome Die Job One Liner
Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
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Battle Mischief War Win
What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
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Believe Couple Person Special
I just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit.
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Calculation Determination Insult Shit
Depression is a side effect of dying.
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Depression Die One Liner
Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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Choose Compose Infinite Live Moments Spend
You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
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Affection Distance Effort Failure Realize Save Try
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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Choice Choose Hurt Satisfaction World
We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
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Help Hurt Universe
The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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Factory World
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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Book Help Understand
The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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Human Powerful Tongue
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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Act Head Inside Magic Page Reading
You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
JOHN GREEN

Love Survival
Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
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Broken Heart Hurt People Promise Understand
If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
JOHN GREEN

Business Happen Imagination Inspirational
What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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Broken Heart Person Understand Unhappy
They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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Enough Hairs Interesting Love Smart
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
JOHN GREEN

Favourite People Story
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
JOHN GREEN

Act Head Inside Magic Page Reading
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
JOHN GREEN

Book Forever Love Reading Wait
Crying is you, plus tears.
JOHN GREEN

Abundance Cry One Liner Sad Tears
That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
JOHN GREEN

Break Up Broken Heart Happen Hurt Imagination Life
The town was paper, but the memories were not.
JOHN GREEN

Memories Paper Town

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