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.
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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You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
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If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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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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Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
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It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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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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Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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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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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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Maybe there is something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.
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You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
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Life works best when we think of people as people.
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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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