Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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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I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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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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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don’t wanna make eye contact while telling it
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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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What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
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Crying is you, plus tears.
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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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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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You can love someone so much but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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Without pain, how could we know joy?
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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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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Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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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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I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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The good times and the bad times both will pass.
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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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I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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