Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
JOHN GREENBooks so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
More John Green Quotes
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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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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.
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It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
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Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
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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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The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
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My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
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Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
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There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
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Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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Life works best when we think of people as people.
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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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Crying is you, plus tears.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.
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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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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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