The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
JOHN GREENNot that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.
More John Green Quotes
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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 are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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You can love someone so much but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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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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Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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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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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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It is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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