John Green Quotes

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Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?

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What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.

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Lacey shrugged bashfully. Do you think I'm superficial? Well, yeah. I thought of myself standing outside Becca's bedroom, hoping she'd take her shirt off. But so am I, I added. So is everyone.

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Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.

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I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance...

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Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drunk and tired.

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He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her

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I'm not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.

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I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.

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Hazel Grace, he said. Hi, I said. How are you? Grand, he said. I have been wanting to call you on a nearly minutely basis, but I have been waiting until I could form a coherent thought in re An Imperial Affliction. (He said in re. He really did. That boy.)

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Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!

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She called it a paper town. Like, you know, everything so fake and flimsy.

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The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.

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I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.

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You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.

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She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as a I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall.

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Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."—Democritus An Abundance of Katherines—John Green

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It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

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Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?

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God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.

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Whatever, bro. We both had a long day. Too much drama. I'll TTYS." I wanted to ridicule him for using chatspeak IRL, but I found myself lacking the energy.

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People just liked Hassan, the way people like fast food and celebrities.

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But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

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More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against the back of Takumi's headrest, and I cried, whimpering, and I didn't even feel sadness so much as pain.

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'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his fellow monks, 'Come quickly: I am tasting the stars!'

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The Venn Diagram of guys who don't like smart girls and guys you don't want to date is a circle.

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Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.

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There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.

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Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.

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The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to speed limit, time to pass this sixteen-wheeler, turn signal, check rearview, crane neck to check blind spot and yes, okay, left lane.

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