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The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.

John Green

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
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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Advertisement Affection Betrayal Book Feeling Rare Special
Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
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Pain Poetry Rain Soul
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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Busy Ideas Yourself
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
When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.
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Break Break Up Prevention Togetherness
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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Book Die Life Sentence Truth
There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
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Die Glory Honor Ill
Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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Character Grief One Liner Reveal
They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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Enough Hairs Interesting Love Smart
We all use the future to escape the present.
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Escape Future One Liner Present
You can love someone so much but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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Love Missing People
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 are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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Believe Destruction Ourselves
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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Bury Death Language Lost Mortal Writing
I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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Humour Run Smoke

The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.

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