The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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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There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
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Everything that comes together falls apart.
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There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.
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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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If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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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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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.
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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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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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Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
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That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence.
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It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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