John Green Quotes

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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