That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
JOHN GREENThe pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.
More John Green Quotes
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Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
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The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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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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The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
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We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
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We all use the future to escape the present.
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You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
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The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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Without pain, how could we know joy?
JOHN GREEN






