He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
JOHN GREENYou 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.
More John Green Quotes
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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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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’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
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We’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
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You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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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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I ran like a cheetah – well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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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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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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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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We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
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God knows that’s what everyone else does.
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What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
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Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
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