The town was paper, but the memories were not.
JOHN GREENSome tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
More John Green Quotes
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It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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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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I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.
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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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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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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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You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
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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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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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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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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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Crying is you, plus tears.
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It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
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Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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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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Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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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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