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19a44f6	I get it now. I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.			John Green
7f015a7	As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.			John Green
7bbb275	Imagine others complexly.		inspiration life philosophy wisdom inspirational	John Green
0704e6d	Te pasas toda la vida atorado en el laberinto, pensando en como vas a escapar de ahi un dia y que fabuloso sera; imaginar ese futuro te mantiene con vida, pero nunca te escapas. Solo utilizas el futuro para escapar del presente.		frases john-green	John Green
8e339c1	He really was beautiful. I know boys aren't supposed to be, but he was.		personality	John Green
e87508f	Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole little life, and then you're going to die, and in the last moments, when you're chocking on your own bile in the nursing home, you'll say to yourself:'Well, I wasted my whole goddamned life, but at least I broke into SeaWorld with Margo Roth Spiegelman my senior year of high school. At least I carpe'd t..			John Green
02e4523	Lady and gentleman, when my parents left Korea with nothing but the clothes on their backs and the considerable wealth they had amassed in the shipping business, they had a dream. They had a dream that one day amid the snowy hilltops of western North Carolina, their son would lose his virginity to a cheerleader in the woman's bathroom of a Waffle House just off the interstate. My parents have sacrificed so much for this dream! And that is w..		sex cheerleaders immigration virginity	John Green
8fdfd23	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.			John Green
d88d478	And so we all matter - maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.			John Green
2f0a858	I lean in this time, and she doesn't turn away. It's cold, and our lips are dry, noses a little wet, foreheads sweaty beneath wool hats. I can't touch her face, even though I want to, because I'm wearing gloves. But God, when her lips come apart, everything turns warm and her sugar sweet breath is in my mouth, and I probably taste like hot dogs but I don't care. She kisses like a sweet devouring, and I don't know where to touch her because ..			John Green
d505a04	I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said."			John Green
2be5afd	Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, 'I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear o..		heaven god hell	John Green
58f28a2	I felt tired for the first time, and I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me on my back and she on her side with her arm draped against me, her head on my shoulder, facing me. Not doing anything--just lying there together beneath the sky, the night here so well lit that it drowns out the stars. And maybe I could feel her breathe against my neck, and maybe we could just stay there until morning and then the p..			John Green
e1c01b2	Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're gonna do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. ... You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present			John Green
66bf14b	There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.			John Green
1ca5604	We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?		love	John Green
0a32ffc	You can love someone so much,' he thought. 'But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.			John Green
57b83a9	Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?		hate john-green the-fault-in-our-stars	John Green
d0c2961	Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.			John Green
495cdcf	I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.		life self-value worthy	John Green
dbe8842	I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.		the-fault-in-our-stars	John Green
88ea5f9	It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy.			John Green
d5a47d9	You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.		romantic isaac will-grayson togetherness	John Green
f46daac	I can't be mad at you, you harmless scrawny bastard.			John Green
cea2f2f	How can you seperate those things though? The people are the place is the people.			John Green
a5cadde	Most adults are just hollowed out. You watch them try to fill themselves up with booze or money or God or fame or whatever they worship, and it all rots them from the inside until nothing is left but the money or the booze or God they though would save them. Adults think they are wielding power, but really power is wielding them.			John Green
70baf91	Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.		support-group john-green tfios	John Green
7eccb7b	But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness		music	John Green
95ffc9e	And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking.			John Green
521f49a	I don't think God gives a shit if we have a dog or if a woman wears shorts. I think He gives a shit whether you're a good person.			John Green
ad7fc9c	That's absolutely true, about the eight glasses a day. There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water. Most experts agree that unless there's something horribly wrong with you, you should just drink water whenever you're - get this - thirsty.			John Green
5ac8185	Funerals...are for the living.			John Green
7adeaba	Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home. But that only led to a lonely life accompanied by the last words of the already dead, so I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.		the-labyrinth the-labyrinth-of-suffering the-great-perhaps	John Green
d9a6bbb	I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the good kids and all kids--as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.		paper-towns	John Green
e73cac0	I wanted to tell her that I was getting better, because that was supposed to be the narrative of illness: It was a hurdle you jumped over, or a battle you won. Illness is a story told in the past tense.			John Green
36bd890	How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.			John Green
8910567	You just, like, hate yourself? You hate being yourself?" "There's no self to hate. It's like, when I look into myself, there's no actual me--just a bunch of thoughts and behaviors and circumstances. And a lot of them just don't feel like they're mine. They're not things I want to think or do or whatever. And when I do look for the, like, Real Me, I never find it. It's like those nesting dolls, you know? The ones that are hollow, and then w..			John Green
f8ce71d	It was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. I wanted to be the last one she loved. And I knew I wasn't. I knew it, and I hated her for it. I hated her for not caring about me. I hated her for leaving that night, and I hated myself , too, not only because I let her go but because if I had been enough for her, she wouldn't have even wanted to leave. She would have just lain with me and talked and cried, and I would have listened and kiss..			John Green
bf1c2b9	Eventually, he found the bed too comfortable for his state of mind, so he lay down on his back, his legs sprawled across the carpet. He anagrammed "yrs forever" until he found one he liked: sorry fever. And then he lay there in his fever of sorry and repeated the now memorized note in his head and wanted do cry, but instead he only felt this aching behind his solar plexus. Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Co..			John Green
b6be1d8	You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness." He spoke every sentence as if he'd written it down, memorized it, and was now reciting it. "But while you were looking out the window, you missed the chance to explore the equally interesting Buddhist belief in being present for every facet of your daily life, of being truly present. Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there,..			John Green
9d8e9ca	there are books which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.		john-green the-fault-in-our-stars protagonist hazel	John Green
5856ade	Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.		john-green the-fault-in-our-stars	John Green
187d386	The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.		humor john-green hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars	John Green
ca4c095	He shook his head, just looking at me. "What?" I asked. "Nothing," he said.		hazel-grace	John Green

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