The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.
JOHN GREENYou do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
More John Green Quotes
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I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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The good times and the bad times both will pass.
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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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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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The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.
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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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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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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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Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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You can love someone so much but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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