You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREENIt would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
More John Green Quotes
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You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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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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Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
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The town was paper, but the memories were not.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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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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We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.
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Maybe there is something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.
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It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
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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.
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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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Everything that comes together falls apart.
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