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.
JOHN GREENI enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence
More John Green Quotes
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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
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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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What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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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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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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Life works best when we think of people as people.
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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 gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
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The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
JOHN GREEN






