You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREENYou gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
More John Green Quotes
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Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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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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Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
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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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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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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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Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
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I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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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 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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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
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