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Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.
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Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.
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Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.
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Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.
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I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.
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What i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it's like to work so hard to make sure everyone's happy, and to have not a single person recognize it
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And I don't really have anyone upon whom I want to rain down my wrath," I said, because in truth I didn't. I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies. Example: Historically, Germany has had more enemies than Luxembourg, Margo Roth Spiegelman was Germany. And Great Britain. And the United States. And czarist Russia. Me, I'm Luxembourg. Just sitting around, tending sheep, and yodeling.
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I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.
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Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.
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I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.
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So I guess the first thing I would say is: you need to write a story that, unlike my story, has a beginning, a middle and an end. Also the beginning shouldn't involve hating foxes and the end shouldn't involve no one liking you.
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I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.
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I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.
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His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn't even know that guys could turn me on-not, like, in real life
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He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?
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Are you currently at your house?" he asked. "Um, no," I said. "That was a trick question. I knew the answer, because I am currently at your house.
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The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.
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How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?
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Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.
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Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.
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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya's name because it was the first that came to mind, because in that moment she didn't want to get expelled and she couldn't think past that moment. She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.
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God, it's over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people's problems and get some of your own.
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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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