I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
JOHN GREENThe human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
More John Green Quotes
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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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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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You can love someone so much but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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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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You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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Life works best when we think of people as people.
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We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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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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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
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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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Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
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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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Crying is you, plus tears.
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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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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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Depression is a side effect of dying.
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You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
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We all use the future to escape the present.
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If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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