eb8d638
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And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to.
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john-green
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John Green |
e623b99
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you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.
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John Green |
3d7efdc
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I began to swim, an armless silver mermaid, using only my hips to generate motion, until finally my ass scraped against the lake's mucky bottom. I turned then and used my hips and waist to roll three times, until I came ashore near a ratty green towel. They'd left me a towel. How thoughtful.
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John Green |
3e89387
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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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John Green |
d5e2a7d
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In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute-- how dismissive it is, how it's the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, "Feel Bad About Yourself."
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John Green |
01db9c0
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I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.
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John Green |
cae02f5
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That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.
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John Green |
ce5a52f
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I left the only way you can leave. You pull your life off all at once - like a Band-Aid.
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leaving
paper-towns
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John Green |
7e21348
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All salvation is temporary
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John Green |
1e5d4f6
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Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering
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John Green |
aa81963
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Oh no you didn't," Radar says when I show him why we're laughing. "Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt."
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paper-towns
quentin-jacobsen
radar
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John Green |
df9c08a
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She loved mysteries so much, that she became one
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quentin-jacobsen
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John Green |
2ffb6f7
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The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling.
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John Green |
bf4464d
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Te sientes mejor? le pregunto. No murmuro Isaac. Es lo que pasa con el dolor dijo Augustus. Volvio la mirada hacia mi y anadio: Hay que sentirlo.
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John Green |
095ef52
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I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another.
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John Green |
771540f
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AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed. 'So that's Sara,' I said. 'Yes.' 'She seems nice.
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colonel
funny
john-green
looking-for-alaska
miles
pudge
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John Green |
da6f44b
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The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don't know, all possible outcomes feel as if they are happening.
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John Green |
b75ff10
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The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes. That's God, I think, the rising sun and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost. I don't believe we return to haunt or comfort the living or anything, but I think something becomes of us.
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John Green |
c37eb66
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We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?
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John Green |
a73f517
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Between the three of us, we have five legs, four eyes & two & a half working pairs of lungs.
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hazel-grace-lancaster
tfios
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John Green |
4acc2b6
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I didn't want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus.
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John Green |
f2b684a
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She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.
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John Green |
685a857
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There's no need to suffer. Which I'd argue is just a fundamental misunderstanding of the human predicament, but okay.
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John Green |
08453b8
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It's gas! It's gonna blow!" Ben shouts. He throws open the passenger door and takes off, running in a panic. He hurdles a split-rail fence and tears across a hay field. I get out as well, but not in quite the same hurry. Radar is outside, too, and as Ben hauls ass, Radar is laughing. "It's the beer," he says."
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John Green |
e22d982
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Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.
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John Green |
55d7911
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Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds.
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love
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John Green |
712d6c4
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What?" I asked. "Nothing," he said.
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beauty
hazel
john-green
quote
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John Green |
3a5ab12
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She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die
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John Green |
df2e308
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So much depends upon the transparent G-tube erupting from the gut of the blue-lipped boy. So much depends upon this observer of the universe"......."And you say you don't write poetry."
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John Green |
6169fe0
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I am awful. I am heartless. I am scared that these things are actually true.
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John Green |
89ce0b3
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We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.
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John Green |
1082dfb
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That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt...
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John Green |
f8c4fc3
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Getting pissed wouldn't fix it. Damn it.
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John Green |
b4ad906
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And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
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John Green |
5f94ae0
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They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father.
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John Green |
d00d467
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My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.
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the-fault-in-our-start
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John Green |
7db5064
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The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.
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John Green |
a4c3750
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The marks humans leave are too ofter scars.
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John Green |
e26defc
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And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she would laugh.
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John Green |
f9734d0
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My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.
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John Green |
86d97e0
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I lit up like a Christmas tree-Augustus Waters
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sad
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John Green |
887619a
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You're amazing, and I so want to be your boyfriend, because of what you just said, and also because that shirt makes me want to take you home and do unspeakable things while we watch live-action Sailor Moon videos
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John Green |
0fd157f
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You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.
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John Green |
5317c7f
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The pigs can't stop the fox; I'm too quick,' Takumi said to himself. "I can rhyme while I run; I'm that slick."
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funny
looking-for-alaska
miles
pudge
takumi
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