Without pain, how could we know joy?
JOHN GREENMy thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
More John Green Quotes
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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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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We just did an awesome job of not 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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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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I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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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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Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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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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I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
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When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
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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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We all use the future to escape the present.
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It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
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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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Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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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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Maybe there is something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.
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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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What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
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Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
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The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.
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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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