John Green Quotes

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

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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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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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More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against the back of Takumi's headrest, and I cried, whimpering, and I didn't even feel sadness so much as pain.

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

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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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Anyway, that was the last good day I had with Gus until the Last Good Day.

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Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

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High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

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He wasn't perfect or anything. He wasn't your fairytale prince charming or whatever. He tried to be like that sometimes, but i liked him best when that stuff fell away.

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And since she drove to work every morning, I could only use the car on weekends. Well, weekends and the middle of the goddamned night.

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Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape—the world or the end of it?

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If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd just let myself be trampled to death by the Satan Pig.

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Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

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I think about how much depends upon a best friend. Then you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not.

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Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

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We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone.

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The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.

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You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.

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To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved.

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Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe wants something important to happen to him, even if the important thing is horrible. It is not the disgust of seeing a dead stranger, and not the breathlessness of hearing a shotgun pumped outside of Becca Arrington's house. This cannot be addressed by breathing exercises. This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.

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I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me,...

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I've stopped thinking about it. I don't have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.

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How about I call you when I finish this? But you don't even have my phone number, he said. I strongly suspect you wrote it in the book. He broke out into that goofy smile. A nd you say we don't know each other.

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Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.

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He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.

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