You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREENWe all use the future to escape the present.
More John Green Quotes
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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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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Everything that comes together falls apart.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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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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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
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When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
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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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Depression is a side effect of dying.
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We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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Crying is you, plus tears.
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The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
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Whatever you’re worried about, you’re bigger than the worries.
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