I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
JOHN GREEN
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.
JOHN GREEN
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
JOHN GREEN
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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Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don’t wanna make eye contact while telling it
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The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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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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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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Whatever you’re worried about, you’re bigger than the worries.
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The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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The human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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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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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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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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