He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
JOHN GREENWithout pain, how could we know joy?
More John Green Quotes
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You can love someone so much but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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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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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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Crying is you, plus tears.
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I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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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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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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The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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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 didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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We all use the future to escape the present.
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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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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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The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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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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There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
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The good times and the bad times both will pass.
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The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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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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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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