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There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.
John GreenJohn Green The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
John GreenJohn Green God knows that’s what everyone else does.
John GreenJohn Green You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
John GreenJohn Green You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
John GreenJohn Green Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
John GreenJohn Green The good times and the bad times both will pass.
John GreenJohn Green There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
John GreenJohn Green There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
John GreenJohn Green Crying is you, plus tears.
John GreenJohn Green 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.
John GreenJohn Green What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
John GreenJohn Green The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
John GreenJohn Green Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
John GreenJohn Green 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.
John GreenJohn Green It is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Shadows follow me the way a vulture stalks death. One small step ahead.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery Hidden in the ashes, of a fallen building lays a child’s family photo, with whom he could never unite in life.
Heba NazarHeba Nazar To love something, someone. You don’t need to own them.
Sonika MSonika M When you miss someone, you realize their worth and your faith.
Aradhna S BirenAradhna S Biren The bed was the canvas, we were the art.
Jonny OxJonny Ox Every little part of your soul was made to shine.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski When in truth, it is the transparency that kills you. The pain of seeing through to something you can never quite touch.
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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
Edward AlbeeEdward Albee Whatever has befallen you was not meant to escape you, and whatever has escaped you was not meant to befall you.
Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-QarniAaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality – the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
A. C. BensonA. C. Benson America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
A. A. GillA. A. Gill But you shall not escape my iambics.
CatullusCatullus Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
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