It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
JOHN GREENGreat books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
More John Green Quotes
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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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What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
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It is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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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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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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We all use the future to escape the present.
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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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Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
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The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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Everything that comes together falls apart.
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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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Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
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It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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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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