The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
JOHN GREENWhen things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.
More John Green Quotes
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Standing in line is a form of oppression.
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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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What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
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Your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
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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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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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Whatever you’re worried about, you’re bigger than the worries.
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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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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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We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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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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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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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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Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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What’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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