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

John Green

The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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Human Powerful Tongue
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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Bury Death Language Lost Mortal Writing
What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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Alive Inspirational Remarkable Try
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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Busy Ideas Yourself
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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Book Reading
That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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Break Up Broken Heart Happen Hurt Imagination Life
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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Afraid Hurt Love Matter
Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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Alcohol Brain Damage Drunk Extreme Happiness
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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Affection Distance Effort Failure Realize Save Try
Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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Character Grief One Liner Reveal
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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Act Head Inside Magic Page Reading
We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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Awesome Die Job One Liner
Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.
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Attitude Funny Nice Smart
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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Beautiful Decision Enjoyment Existence Myself People Pleasure
The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
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Assure Distant Feeling Future Past
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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Busy Ideas Yourself

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