We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
JOHN GREENHe liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
JOHN GREENDon’t make stuff because you want to make money – it will never make you enough money.
JOHN GREENThat didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
JOHN GREENSome infinities are bigger than other infinities.
JOHN GREENThe urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
JOHN GREENThe good times and the bad times both will pass.
JOHN GREENThe measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
JOHN GREENMaybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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 GREENI don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
JOHN GREENSome tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
JOHN GREENGod knows that’s what everyone else does.
JOHN GREENIt’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
JOHN GREENThe marks humans leave are too often scars.
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