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People thought he was a glutton for punishment, that he liked getting dumped. But it wasn't like that. He could just never see anything coming, and as he lay on the solid, uneven ground with Hassan pressing too hard on his forehead, Colin Singleton's distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
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Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large.
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The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.
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She said 'I love you' as if it were a secret, and an immense one.
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Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memories—would anyone, anyone, love me?
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I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.
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Dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.
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Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held out hope that the suffering could be transcended. Jesus brought the message that even the last shall be first, that even the tax collectors and lepers - the outcasts - had cause for hope. And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope.
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I'm just reveling in the glory of not having to hear the neediness and impotence of my own voice.
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But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling, the waves tossing me against the rocks then pulling me back out to sea so they could launch me again into the jagged face of the cliff, leaving me floating faceup on the water, undrowned.
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Radar threw his books into his locker and shut it. Then the din of conversation around us quieted just a bit as he turned his eyes toward the heavens and shouted, "IT IS NOT MY FAULT THAT MY PARENTS OWN THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF BLACK SANTAS.
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I may not have facts on my side, Hank, but I still think I'm right. That's the American way.
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The moment Colin sat down, Hollis asked Hassan, "Would you like to say grace?"
"Sure thing." Hassan cleared his throat. "Bismallah." Then he picked up his fork.
"That's it?" Hollis wondered.
"That's it. We are a terse people. Terse, and also hungry."
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Her hair is ridiculous," I said. "I know. That was the only thing I said about her that was true. When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back, you know? I mean, there are highlights. And there are streaks. And then there are skunk stripes.
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Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.
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I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill. - Takumi
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You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.
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Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?
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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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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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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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The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.
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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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God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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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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