The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
JOHN GREENAs he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
More John Green Quotes
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The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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Life works best when we think of people as people.
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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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It is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
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The town was paper, but the memories were not.
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Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
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I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.
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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 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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There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.
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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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Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.
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She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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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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Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
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They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
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The future is a kind of nostalgia.
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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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We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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