John Green Quotes

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Me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good....Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?

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I didn't need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.

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Of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him-inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he reached for me: I'd felt as though I were committing an act of violence against him, because I was.

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I mean Hank, the movie was great, but the thirty minutes before the movie started was what I love about being a nerd. Because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. We don't have to be like, 'Oh yeah that purse is okay' or like, 'Yeah, I like that band's early stuff.' Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can't-control-yourself-love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they are saying is, 'You like stuff', which is just not a good insult at all, like 'You are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness'.

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Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.

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Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.

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I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.

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It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

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Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

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Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.

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Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.

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I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

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I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.

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Let's make a deal: You figure out what the labyrinth is and how to get out of it, and i'll get you laid. -Alaska Young

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I have never really thought of him as a person, either.... A guy whose strings were broken, who didn't feel the root of his leaves of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Like me.

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It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

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At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

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So it's your death suit. Correct. Don't you have a death outfit? Yeah, I said. It's a dress I bought for my fifteenth birthday party. But I don't wear it on dates. His eyes lit up. We're on a date? he asked. I looked down, feeling bashful. Don't push it.

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I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?

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She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.

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"Augustus Waters," I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank House, and then thinking that Anne Frank, after all, kissed someone in the Anne Frank House, and that she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become a place where the young and irreparably broken sink into love.

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Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

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You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

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The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.

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Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

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Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?

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[Twilight] argues that true love will triumph in the end, which may or may not be true, but if it's a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.

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If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

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I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.

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And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.

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