John Green Quotes

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Ma'am," Augustus said, nodding toward her, "Your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police.

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She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.

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I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that's hard to look at..

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You can't divorce Margo the person from Margo the body. You can't see one without seeing the other. You looked at Margo's eyes and you saw both their blueness and their Margo-ness. In the end, you could not say that Margo Roth Spiegelman was fat, or that she was skinny, any more than you can say that the Eiffel Tower is or is not lonely. Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection – uncracked and uncrackable.

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Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC. NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few seconds later. I mean, he's blind. So that's unfortunate.

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I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.

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I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

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When you're as charming and physically attractive as myself, it's easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to love you...now, that's the trick.

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If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

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It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.

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Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.

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Well, but you can eat Grandma's cookies. They're not bad for you. They were made by Grandma. Grandma wouldn't hurt you.

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It was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. i wanted to be the last one she loved.

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At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her days without increasing the number of them.

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People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm.

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You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.

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I didn't know what to say to her - I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

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Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou

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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

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The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated discussion classes. I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn't sound dumb, and I hated how it was all just a game of trying to figure out what the teacher wanted to hear and then saying it. I'm in class, so teach me.

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On the morning in question, she wore white shorts and a pink T-shirt that featured a green dragon breathing a fire of orange glitter. It is difficult to explain how awesome I found this T-shirt at the time.

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But in AIA, Anna decides that being a person with cancer who starts a cancer charity is a bit narcissistic, so she starts a charity called The Anna Foundation for People with cancer Who Want to Cure Cholera.

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As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.

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The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.

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I hated cranberry sauce, but for some reason my mom persisted in her lifelong belief that it was my very favorite food, even though every single Thanksgiving I politely declined to include it on my plate.

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He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.

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Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked. How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?

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"The thing about That Guy Is a Gigolo," Radar says, "I mean, the thing about it as a game, is that in the end it reveals a lot more about the person doing the imagining than it does about the person being imagined."

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He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.

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There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed.

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