As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
JOHN GREENSometimes, 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.
More John Green Quotes
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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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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
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We all use the future to escape the present.
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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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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
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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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It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
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Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.
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The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
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