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b6d072a We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see. love turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
a4e7c1c You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you. life page-257 john-green turtles-all-the-way-down stories John Green
c720412 True terror isn't being scared; it's not having a choice on the matter. turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
25bdcec To be alive is to be missing. life page-281 missing john-green turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
f62acb7 I is the hardest word to define. turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
3a495a2 In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt like we were in some place your body can't visit, some place with no ceiling and no walls and no floor and no instruments john-green turtles-all-the-way-down talk John Green
d17ff45 Break hearts, not promises. turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
c3f2151 Every loss is unprecedented. You can't ever know someone else's hurt, not really--just like touching someone else's body isn't the same as having someone else's body. pain john-green turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
16a868b Nobody gets anybody else, not really. We're all stuck inside ourselves. page-244 john-green turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
ceb893e Like, the world is billions of years old, and life is a product of nucleotide mutation and everything. But the world is also the stories we tell about it. page-257 john-green turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
0d527bf Photographs are just light and time, photography time turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
1788662 Dr. Karen Singh liked to say that a unwanted thought was like a car driving past you when you're standing on on the side of the road, and I told myself I didn't have to get into that car, that my moment of choice was not whether to have the thought, but whether to be carried away by it. And then I got in the car. chapter-twenty-two page-251 john-green turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
7e81ef6 There's an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem that's been rumbling around inside me ever since I first read it, and part of it goes: 'Blown from the dark hill hither to my door/ Three flakes, then four/ Arrive, then many more.' You can count the first three flakes, and the fourth. Then language fails, and you have to settle in and try to survive the blizzard poem edna-st-vincent-millay snow-flake john-green turtles-all-the-way-down snow John Green
bcb2b35 You are somebody's something, but you are also your you. turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
bbffa21 "Reading someone's poetry is like seeing them naked" -Davis Pritchett" poetry turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
74cc7e9 You'd think solving mysteries would bring you closure, that closing the loop would comfort and quiet your mind. But it never does. The truth always disappoints. page-267 john-green turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
fa307db We are both astonishments, the closest thing in the known universe to a miracle miracle universe john-green turtles-all-the-way-down John Green
1590cc8 You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us kids turtles-all-the-way-down teen John Green
644b052 I would always be like this, always have this within me. There was no beating it. I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me. My self and the disease were knotted together for life. john-green turtles-all-the-way-down mental-illness John Green
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