John Green Quotes

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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Affection Distance Effort Failure Realize Save Try
The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.
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Father
Love is keeping the promise anyway.
JOHN GREEN

Love One Liner Promise
When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.
JOHN GREEN

Break Break Up Prevention Togetherness
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
JOHN GREEN

Couple Fall Fall In Love Love Reading Sleep
The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
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Broken Crazy Hope One Liner Positive World
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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City Finding Freedom People Sin Thinking Tourist
Some people have lives; some people have music.
JOHN GREEN

Live Music People
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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Alone Introvert Profession Writing
Without pain, how could we know joy?
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Joy Life One Liner Pain
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
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Constellation Imagination Stars
I just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit.
JOHN GREEN

Calculation Determination Insult Shit
That’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 GREEN

Book Die Life Sentence Truth
Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
JOHN GREEN

Fear Graduation Secret Weapon
Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
JOHN GREEN

Alcohol Brain Damage Drunk Extreme Happiness
Life works best when we think of people as people.
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Life One Liner People Thinking Work
I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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Future Humour Unpredictable
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
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Book Help Understand
I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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Couple Friendship Idiot Need
She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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Love Mystery She
What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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Broken Heart Person Understand Unhappy
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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Human Leaving One Liner Scars
Grief does not change you, It reveals you.
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Character Grief One Liner Reveal
There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.
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Fault Stars
The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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Friendship Measure Physical Significance
God knows that’s what everyone else does.
JOHN GREEN

God Karma
You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
JOHN GREEN

Busy Ideas Yourself

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