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Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.

John Green

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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Afraid Hurt Love Matter
There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
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Love Matter People World
The future is a kind of nostalgia.
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Future Nostalgia One Liner
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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Favourite People Story
We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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Book Business Done Reading Writing
We all use the future to escape the present.
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Escape Future One Liner Present
You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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Abundance Happen Remember
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
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City Finding Freedom People Sin Thinking Tourist
What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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Broken Heart Person Understand Unhappy
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
We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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Awesome Die Job One Liner
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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Human Leaving One Liner Scars
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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Awful Feeling Person Realize Shock Strange World
I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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Future Humour Unpredictable
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
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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Love Survival
It is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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Break Up Leaving World
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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Choice Choose Hurt Satisfaction World
Without pain, how could we know joy?
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Joy Life One Liner Pain
It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
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Expectation Look People Stupidity
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
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Infinite One Liner
Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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Character Grief One Liner Reveal
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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Easy Forget Imagination People World
Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
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Gift People Responsiblity
The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
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Broken Crazy Hope One Liner Positive World
What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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Life People
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

Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.

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