What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
JOHN GREENWe’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
More John Green Quotes
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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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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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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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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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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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It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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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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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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We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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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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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
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