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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.

John Green

I just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit.
JOHN GREEN

Calculation Determination Insult Shit
The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
JOHN GREEN

Friendship Measure Physical Significance
Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.
JOHN GREEN

Attitude Funny Nice Smart
Don’t make stuff because you want to make money – it will never make you enough money.
JOHN GREEN

Enough Hard Time Money Stuff
I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
JOHN GREEN

Inside Missing Pieces Thinking
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
JOHN GREEN

Human Leaving One Liner Scars
There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.
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Fault Stars
What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
JOHN GREEN

Believe Couple Person Special
The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
JOHN GREEN

Assure Distant Feeling Future Past
Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
JOHN GREEN

Choose Compose Infinite Live Moments Spend
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
JOHN GREEN

Advertisement Affection Betrayal Book Feeling Rare Special
Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
JOHN GREEN

College Graduation People Stupidity
You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
JOHN GREEN

Abundance Happen Remember
The town was paper, but the memories were not.
JOHN GREEN

Memories Paper Town
When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.
JOHN GREEN

Break Break Up Prevention Togetherness
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 GREEN

Book Forever Love Reading Wait
I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
JOHN GREEN

Except Philosophy Survival
You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
JOHN GREEN

Love Survival
It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
JOHN GREEN

Break Up Broken Heart Heart Privilege
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
JOHN GREEN

City Finding Freedom People Sin Thinking Tourist
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
JOHN GREEN

Art Complete Ill Philosophy Sick Urge
We just did an awesome job of not dying.
JOHN GREEN

Awesome Die Job One Liner
When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you’re living a less performed life.
JOHN GREEN

Acknowledge Authentic Forgiveness Life Performance Person Shame Yourself
We just did an awesome job of not dying.
JOHN GREEN

Awesome Die Job One Liner
Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
JOHN GREEN

Character Grief One Liner Reveal
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREEN

Bury Death Language Lost Mortal Writing
We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
JOHN GREEN

Book Business Done Reading Writing

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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