The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
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The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
JOHN GREENWhat’s the meaning of life? Other people.
JOHN GREENSometimes, 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.
JOHN GREENSome people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
JOHN GREENYou are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
JOHN GREENWhen 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.
JOHN GREENMuch of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
JOHN GREENYour responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
JOHN GREENThat’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence.
JOHN GREENThe future is a kind of nostalgia.
JOHN GREENThere’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
JOHN GREENEverything that comes together falls apart.
JOHN GREENPoetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
JOHN GREENSome people have lives; some people have music.
JOHN GREENThe measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
JOHN GREENIf you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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