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.
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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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
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We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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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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You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you’re living a less performed life.
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I just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit.
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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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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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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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