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It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings.
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I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.
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But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended.
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It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.
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But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness
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And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.
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And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.
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The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't.
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"And we'll call you... hmmm. Pudge."
"Huh?"
"Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right."
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But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. (Cancer is also a side effect of dying. Almost everything is, really.)
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Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes.
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The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.
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In the end, I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because 1. I don't think that word should ever be used by anyone, let alone me, and 2. As it happens, I am not gay, and furthermore, 3. Chuck Parson made it out like calling yourself a faggot was the ultimate humiliation, even though there's nothing at all embarrassing about being gay.
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Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't.
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There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another good day.
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You know what I hate? The outdoors. I mean, generally. I don't like outside. I'm an inside person. I'm all about refrigeration and indoor plumbing and Judge Judy.
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Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts.
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It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine.
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If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.
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I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
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[Twilight] argues that true love will triumph in the end, which may or may not be true, but if it's a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.
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Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.
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Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.
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Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?
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Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.
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Born:
August 24, 1977
(age 46)
Bio:
John Michael Green is an American author of young adult fiction.
Known for:
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
Looking for Alaska (2005)
Paper Towns (2008)
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010)
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