He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
JOHN GREENThe town was paper, but the memories were not.
More John Green Quotes
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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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What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
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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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What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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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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Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
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Without pain, how could we know joy?
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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.
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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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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 I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
JOHN GREEN






