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The town was paper, but the memories were not.

John Green

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

Break Break Up Prevention Togetherness
I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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Humour Run Smoke
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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Favourite People Story
I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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Inside Missing Pieces Thinking
Without pain, how could we know joy?
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Joy Life One Liner Pain
Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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Alcohol Brain Damage Drunk Extreme Happiness
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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Acknowledge Authentic Forgiveness Life Performance Person Shame Yourself
Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.
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Attitude Funny Nice Smart
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
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Book Reading
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
JOHN GREEN

Favourite People Story
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
You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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Alone Forgiveness Help Love
I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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Except Philosophy Survival
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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Book Help Understand
The good times and the bad times both will pass.
JOHN GREEN

Change One Liner Struggle Time
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
I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
JOHN GREEN

Inside Missing Pieces Thinking
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
There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.
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Fault Stars
I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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Couple Friendship Idiot Need
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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Book Die Life Sentence Truth
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
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Love People Perfection Person Positive Worth
Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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Character Grief One Liner Reveal
You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
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Affection Distance Effort Failure Realize Save Try
It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
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Expectation Look People Stupidity
We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
JOHN GREEN

Believe Destruction Ourselves
Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
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College Graduation People Stupidity

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

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