You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREENOur lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
More John Green Quotes
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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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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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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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We all use the future to escape the present.
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The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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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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She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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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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We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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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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Without pain, how could we know joy?
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Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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