You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
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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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
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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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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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Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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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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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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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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What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
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Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don’t wanna make eye contact while telling it
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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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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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