You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREENGod knows that’s what everyone else does.
More John Green Quotes
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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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I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence
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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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Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
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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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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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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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They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
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Life works best when we think of people as people.
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The future is a kind of nostalgia.
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I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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