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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.
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You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.
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You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home?" "No, sir," Gus said. "We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water.
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And then I was asleep. That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep, that sleep that is not particularly restful but difficult to wake up from all the same.
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This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die."- Paper Towns
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I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.
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You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.
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There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when they tell you that you have, say, a 20 percent chance of living five years, the math kicks in and you figure that's one in five... so you look around and think, as any healthy person would: I gotta outlast four of these bastards.
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I leaned in toward her, suddenly overwhelmed with the feeling that we must kiss.
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Does he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands." "No he has kind of amazing hands.
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Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want.
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Is health care a privilege, or is it a right? If it's a privilege, even if it's a really desirable privilege like indoor plumbing, we need to stop giving health care of any kind to uninsured people who can't pay for it in advance. But...... I think the reason we continue to treat people who are uninsured is because we don't believe that health care is a privilege. We believe that it is a right. And if it is a right, like life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it is the responsibility of a government to protect that right.
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And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I'd done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me.
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You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.
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What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?
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We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.
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It hurt like the worst ass-kicking he'd ever gotten. And he'd gotten plenty.
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Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are… People are different when you can smell them and see them up close…
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I've gotten thrown out of thirty-seven straight games,' he said. 'Once or twice, I've had to go really crazy. I ran onto the court with eleven seconds left once and stole the ball from the other team. It wasn't pretty. But, you know. I have a streak to maintain.
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I pointed at the little kids goading each other to jump from rib cage to shoulder and Gus answered just loud enough for me to hear over the din, 'Last time, I imagined myself as the kid. This time, the skeleton.
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Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are.
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Tuesday—we had school for the first time. Madame O'Malley had a moment of silence at the beginning of French class, a class that was always punctuated with long moments of silence, and then asked us how we were feeling. Awful, a girl said. En français, Madame O'Malley replied. En français.
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Tiny Cooper is splayed out across the thin carpet, using his backpack as a pillow. He's wearing skinny jeans, which look very much like denim sausage casings.
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I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison.
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You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was.
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Robert Hughes
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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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