You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
JOHN GREENThe measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
More John Green Quotes
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The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
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The town was paper, but the memories were not.
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What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
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I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
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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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If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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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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Everything that comes together falls apart.
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Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
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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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