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.
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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When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.
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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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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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The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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Without pain, how could we know joy?
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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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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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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 would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
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It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
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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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Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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