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Of course, you pretend to be the author. You have to. You think, I now choose to go to lunch, when that monotone beep rings from on high at 12:37. But really, the bell decides. You think you're the painter, but you're the canvas.
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John Green |
a81b34a
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The thing about dead people... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is... complicated, I guess.
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grief
romanticizing-dead-people
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John Green |
e575fc4
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The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve.
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John Green |
8edcde7
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You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.
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plastic
paper-town
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John Green |
3f340c6
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Augustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so I passed
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John Green |
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It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I just looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed and turned away, placing the side of his head against the window.
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love
hazel-grace
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John Green |
3803879
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Nothing," I said. "I'm just..." I couldn't finish the sentence, didn't know how to. "I'm just very, very fond of you."
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gus
hazel-grace-lancaster
john-green
hazel-grace
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
50b2e9d
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I fear your faith has been mis- placed--but then, faith usually is.
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John Green |
6d7a679
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Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any nonsmoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should've gotten more." "Seventeen," Gus corrected. "I'm assuming you've got some time, you interrupting bastard. "I'm telling you," Isaac continued, "Augustus..
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humour
eulogy
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John Green |
12dce6a
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the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.
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John Green |
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You can say a lot of bad things about Tiny Cooper. I know, because I have said them. But for a guy who knows absolutely nothing about how to conduct his own relationships, Tiny Cooper is kind of brilliant when it comes to dealing with other people's heartbreak. Tiny is like some gigantic sponge soaking up the pain of lost love everywhere he goes.
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John Green |
a0451e8
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Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich
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john-green
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John Green |
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I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
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smoking
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John Green |
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I go to seek a Great Perhaps. a
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John Green |
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Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget.
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John Green |
dac04f4
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I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around.
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growing-up
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John Green |
2cd04bf
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Je pense que j'taime
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John Green |
b104d84
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Llega un momento en que nos damos cuenta de que nuestros padres no se pueden salvar a ellos mismos ni salvarnos a nosotros,que a todos los que navegan por el tiempo,tarde o temprano,la corriente los arrastra hacia el mar, y que, en pocas palabras, todos nos vamos.p
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frases
john-green
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John Green |
8ec2426
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If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.
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pain
romance
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John Green |
cea4204
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The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children."
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John Green |
cb69570
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Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real. A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who created the dot could never have imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also. And it seemed like a way to tell that paper girl who cared about popularit..
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paper-town
real
popularity
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John Green |
d6346db
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I thought at first she was just dead. Just darkness. Just a body being eaten by bugs. I thought about her alot like that, like someone's meal. What was her - green eyes, half a smirk, the soft curves of her legs - would soon be nothing, just the bones I never saw. I thought about the slow process of becoming bone and then fossil and then coal that will, in millions of years, be mined by humans of the future, and how they would heat their ho..
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John Green |
1018e7b
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I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile.
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John Green |
6fc7b5d
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I just think if you don't the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I-
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truth
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John Green |
ef4f519
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It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.
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death
last-words
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John Green |
a7e9ce8
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Wait, wait. I don't get it.' 'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells.
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John Green |
51c3d3a
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The longer I do my job ... the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.
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how-we-look
mirrors
show
humans
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John Green |
e809783
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Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory.
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world
wish
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John Green |
0368247
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I get that nothing lasts. But why do I have to miss everybody so much?
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John Green |
0d3df5b
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Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.
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hazel-grace-lancaster
tfios
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
8230df2
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You feeling scared?" "Kinda." "Of what?" "It's not like that. The sentence doesn't have, like, an object. I'm just scared."
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John Green |
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And now she was colder by the hour, more dead with every breath I took. I thought: 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 the world run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.
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fear
missing
lost-love
sudden
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John Green |
6abd30e
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Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.
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the-fault-in-our-stars
ya
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John Green |
89c3b13
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You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.
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relationships
people
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John Green |
eaf2df6
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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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John Green |
ba87028
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I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...
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grenade
john-green
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
6f72328
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I want more numbers that I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I can not tell you thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.
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tifios
hazel-grace-lancaster
john-green
hazel-grace
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John Green |
5ac3ee2
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The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.
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gus
hazel-grace-lancaster
john-green
hazel-grace
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
c55d0b3
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Sin dolor, no podriamos conocer la alegria
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bajo-la-misma-estrella
the-fault-in-our-starts
john-green
tfios
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John Green |
eb290f9
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You can fight with me," I said. I put my controller down and leaned back on our foam couch and was asleep. As I drifted off, I heard the Colonel say, "I can't be mad at you, you harmless skinny bastard."
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John Green |
9141db4
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I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. I preferred the Colonel: At least when he was cranky, he had a reason.
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John Green |
9cc7a6d
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You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home?" "No, sir," Gus said. "We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water."
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bar-guide
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John Green |
144d386
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As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.
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gus
hazel-grace-lancaster
john-green
hazel-grace
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
2429562
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So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.
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John Green |