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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 sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.
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The point of the story is they built the city anyway, you know? You work with what you have. they had this shit river, and they managed to build an okay city around it. Not a great city, maybe. But not bad. You're not the river. You're the city.
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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.
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Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.
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I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.
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memories fall apart too.
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For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.
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Thank you," I say, pounding his back probably too hard. "That was the best damned passenger-seat driving I've ever seen in my life." He pats my uninjured cheek with his greasy hand. "I did it to save myself, not you," he says. "Believe me when I say that you did not once cross my mind. " I laugh. "Nor you mine," I say."
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I tried to imagine him capital-S Somewhere as we prayed, but even then I could not quite convince myself that he and I would be together again. I already knew too many dead people. I knew that time would now pass for me differently then it would for him- that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead,..
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death-of-a-loved-one
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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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The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for the wrong crowd, they both seemed awfully smart."
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Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down
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The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't.
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Seria un honor tener el corazon roto por ti, Hazel Grace.
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I pointed at the little kids goading each other to jump from rib cage to shoulder and Gus answered just loud enough for me to hear over the din, 'Last time, I imagined myself as the kid. This time, the skeleton.
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skeleton
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I'm not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.
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laughter
safety
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Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral, at Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of him, finally stopped his heart, which was also made of him.
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I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost....I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.
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I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry
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I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.
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love-triangle
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What did Dom Perignon say to fellow monks after he invented champagne? ... Come quickly, I am tasting the stars.
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quotes
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Leaving feels too good, once you leave.
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paper-towns
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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, 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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There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.
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It's not how you die. It's who you die.
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He missed his imagined future.
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Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.
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We kiss. Her hands are freezing on my face, and she tastes like coffee and the smell of the onion is still stuck in my nose, and my lips are all dry from the endless winter. And it's awesome.
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10-5 space 16-5-14-19-5 space 17-21-5 space 10-5 space 20-1-9-13-5.
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Augustus Waters was sitting on the front step as we pulled into the driveway. He was holding a bouquet of bright orange tulips just beginning to bloom.
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hazel-grace
the-fault-in-our-stars
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We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers. I do, Augustus. I do.
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hope
love
philosophy
heartbreaking
the-fault-in-our-stars
sad
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I've always liked quiet people: You never know if they're dancing in a daydream or if they're carrying the weight of the world.
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That doesn't sound like my Margo", she said, and I thought of my Margo, and all of us looking at her reflection in different funhouse mirrors."
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I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.
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looking-for-alaska
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Hazel Grace," he said, my name new and better in his voice. "It has been a real pleasure to make your acquaintance." "Ditto, Mr. Waters," I said. I felt shy looking at him. I could not match the intensity of his waterblue eyes. "May I see you again?" he asked. There was an endearing nervousness in his voice. I smiled. "Sure." "Tomorrow?" he asked. "Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I..
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That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.
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Ben starts. "I Spy with my little eye something I really like." "Oh I know," Radar says. "It's the taste of balls." "No." "Is it the taste of penises?" I guess. "No, dumbass." "Hmm," says Radar. "Is it the smell of balls?" "The texture of balls?"
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Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska?
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The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion.
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John Green |
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Pain demands to be felt.
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tfios
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Being vulnerable is asking to get used.
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I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.
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