The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
JOHN GREENSome people have lives; some people have music.
More John Green Quotes
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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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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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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
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Life works best when we think of people as people.
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I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
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They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
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We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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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 don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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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 do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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