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.
JOHN GREENThe past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
More John Green Quotes
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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
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She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
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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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Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
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What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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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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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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