You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREENThat’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.
More John Green Quotes
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The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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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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Depression is a side effect of dying.
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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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When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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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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The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
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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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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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Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
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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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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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