It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
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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As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
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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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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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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 are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
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It is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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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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The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
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It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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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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What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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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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Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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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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Without pain, how could we know joy?
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Crying is you, plus tears.
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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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