You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
JOHN GREENHe liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
More John Green Quotes
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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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Sometimes, 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.
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You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
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What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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Crying is you, plus tears.
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The good times and the bad times both will pass.
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The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
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Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.
JOHN GREEN






