We all use the future to escape the present.
JOHN GREENThere is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
More John Green Quotes
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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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It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
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There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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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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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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If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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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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There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
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The town was paper, but the memories were not.
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Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.
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We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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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.
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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.
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Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
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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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We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
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