You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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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She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
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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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Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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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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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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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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What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.
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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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Everything that comes together falls apart.
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Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
JOHN GREEN






