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 marks humans leave are too often scars.
More John Green Quotes
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You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.
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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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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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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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What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
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I just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit.
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You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
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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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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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The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
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Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
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You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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