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Without pain, how could we know joy?

John Green

When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.
JOHN GREEN

Break Break Up Prevention Togetherness
It is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
JOHN GREEN

Break Up Leaving World
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
JOHN GREEN

City Finding Freedom People Sin Thinking Tourist
What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
JOHN GREEN

Broken Heart Person Understand Unhappy
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.
JOHN GREEN

Book Forever Love Reading Wait
Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
JOHN GREEN

Fear Graduation Secret Weapon
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.
JOHN GREEN

Book Reading
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREEN

Bury Death Language Lost Mortal Writing
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
JOHN GREEN

Forgiveness Suffering
Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
JOHN GREEN

Cry Devote Life Love People Try
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
JOHN GREEN

Busy Ideas Yourself
Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
JOHN GREEN

Alcohol Brain Damage Drunk Extreme Happiness
Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
JOHN GREEN

Gift People Responsiblity
Standing in line is a form of oppression.
JOHN GREEN

Oppression Stand
You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
JOHN GREEN

Anniversary Couple Forever Number Valentine
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREEN

Bury Death Language Lost Mortal Writing

Without pain, how could we know joy?

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