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The town was paper, but the memories were not.

John Green

The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
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Assure Distant Feeling Future Past
Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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Oppression Stand
What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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Alive Inspirational Remarkable Try
The good times and the bad times both will pass.
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Change One Liner Struggle Time
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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Act Head Inside Magic Page Reading
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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Beautiful Decision Enjoyment Existence Myself People Pleasure
There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
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Die Glory Honor Ill
Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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Love One Liner Promise
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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Father
You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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Alone Forgiveness Help Love
When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.
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Break Break Up Prevention Togetherness
We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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Awesome Die Job One Liner
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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Book Forever Love Reading Wait
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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Couple Fall Fall In Love Love Reading Sleep
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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Bury Death Language Lost Mortal Writing
The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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Friendship Measure Physical Significance

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

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