The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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 are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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The future is a kind of nostalgia.
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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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Whatever you’re worried about, you’re bigger than the worries.
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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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As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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The town was paper, but the memories were not.
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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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The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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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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You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
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You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
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What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
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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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I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence
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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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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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Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.
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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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Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
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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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Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
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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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Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
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