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

John Green

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
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Battle Mischief War Win
I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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Humour Run Smoke
If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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Business Happen Imagination Inspirational
She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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Love Mystery She
What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
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Screw She Time
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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Act Head Inside Magic Page Reading
We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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Book Business Done Reading Writing
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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Busy Ideas Yourself
God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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God Karma
Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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Character Grief One Liner Reveal
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
What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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Alive Inspirational Remarkable Try
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
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
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Infinite One Liner
Depression is a side effect of dying.
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Depression Die One Liner
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
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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Book Help Understand
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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Act Head Inside Magic Page Reading
I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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Future Humour Unpredictable
What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
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Believe Couple Person Special
The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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Friendship Measure Physical Significance
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
That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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Break Up Broken Heart Happen Hurt Imagination Life
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
You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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Abundance Happen Remember
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
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

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