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We all use the future to escape the present.

John Green

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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Break Up Broken Heart Happen Hurt Imagination Life
There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
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Die Glory Honor Ill
I just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit.
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Calculation Determination Insult Shit
Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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Character Grief One Liner Reveal
Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
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Die Enjoyment Smoke
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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Help Hurt Universe
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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Choice Choose Hurt Satisfaction World
I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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Inside Missing Pieces Thinking
You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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Abundance Happen Remember
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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Forgiveness Suffering
You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
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Affection Distance Effort Failure Realize Save Try
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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Book Die Life Sentence Truth
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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Easy Forget Imagination People World
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
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Algorithm Book Invention
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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Advertisement Affection Betrayal Book Feeling Rare Special
Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
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Fear Graduation Secret Weapon

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