As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
JOHN GREENTalking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
More John Green Quotes
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We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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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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Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
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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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You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
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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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Don’t make stuff because you want to make money – it will never make you enough money.
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Life works best when we think of people as people.
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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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Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
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We all use the future to escape the present.
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