You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
JOHN GREENGod knows that’s what everyone else does.
More John Green Quotes
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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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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I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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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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I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
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Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
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You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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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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Crying is you, plus tears.
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The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
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