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 GREENBooks so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
More John Green Quotes
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Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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Depression is a side effect of dying.
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The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
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It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
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You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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We all use the future to escape the present.
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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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You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
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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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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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We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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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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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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