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0180e02
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I didn't need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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John Green |
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39145ff
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But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.
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the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
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8ca28a4
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When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.
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John Green |
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cbfd101
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Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
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depression
life
dying
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John Green |
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633fd24
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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.
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loss
memory
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John Green |
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e85a89b
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He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. 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 re..
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Have you really read all those books in your room?" Alaska laughing- "Oh God no. I've maybe read a third of 'em. But I'm going to read them all. I call it my Life's Library. Every summer since I was little, I've gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read."
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library
reading
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John Green |
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10f7089
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You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
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John Green |
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64515ca
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Headline?" he asked. "'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said. "'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said. "'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said."
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humour
humor
pedophile
pedophilia
john-green
tfios
the-fault-in-our-stars
internet
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John Green |
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3aede3d
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And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.
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wise
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John Green |
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fe80250
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Gus: "It tastes like..." Me: "Food." Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this delicately...?" Me: "It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down around your canal-side dinner table." Gus: "Nicely phr..
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tfios
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John Green |
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154778c
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Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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John Green |
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57dce94
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I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.
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John Green |
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dff8713
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But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
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John Green |
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When you go into the ER, one of the first things they ask you to do is rate your pain on a scale of one to ten, and from there they decide which drugs to use and how quickly to use them. I'd been asked this question hundreds of times over the years, and I remember once early on when I couldn't get my breath and it felt like my chest was on fire, flames licking the inside of my ribs fighting for a way to burn out of my body, my parents took ..
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John Green |
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72c4a71
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Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war
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John Green |
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960d3a0
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It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
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John Green |
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db5c46a
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When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.
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life
inspirational
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John Green |
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5742a05
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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 of hell, but because He is God.
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John Green |
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7052a95
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What else? She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.
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John Green |
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40f08fc
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I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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humor
inspirational
obvious
stupid
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John Green |
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045bebf
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I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit.
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John Green |
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ad34794
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Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You can see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean, look at it, Q: look at all those culs-de-sac, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper hous..
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things-that-matter
paper-towns
nerdfighters
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John Green |
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58afd67
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I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going."
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last-words
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John Green |
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3020d07
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That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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looking-for-alaska
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John Green |
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faca3c5
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Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point.
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John Green |
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fca6fe3
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there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars
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stars
john-green
the-fault-in-our-stars
human-nature
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John Green |
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9f776b9
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You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.
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John Green |
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9a920e8
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Maybe all the strings inside him broke.
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paper
towns
quentin
paper-towns
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John Green |
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31cca9d
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As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.
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John Green |
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4152400
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The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.
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inspirational
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John Green |
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f9d5480
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I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.
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love
john-green
hazel-grace
tfios
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John Green |
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5d03bab
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Maybe its like you said before, all of us being cracked open. Like each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And then things happen - these people leave us, or don't love us, or don't get us, or we don't get them, and we lose and fail and hurt one another. And the vessel starts to crack in places. And I mean, yeah once the vessel cracks open, the end becomes inevitable. Once it starts to rain inside the Osprey, it will never be remodele..
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John Green |
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We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.
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John Green |
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e9b21ec
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I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.)
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humor
diagnosis
john-green
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John Green |
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79590d5
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NO. No no no. I don't want to screw you. I just love you. When did who you want to screw become the whole game? Since when is the person you want to screw the only person you get to love? It's so stupid, Tiny! I mean, Jesus, who even gives a fuck about sex?! People act like it's the most important thing humans do, but come on. How can our sentient fucking lives revolve around something slugs can do. I mean, who you want to screw and whether..
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sexuality
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John Green |
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a56b303
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You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves. I mean, I could hate you for being massively unpunctual and for never being interested in anything other than Margo Roth Spiegelman, and for, like, never asking me about how it's going with my girlfriend - but I don't give a shit, man, because you're you. My parents have a shit ton of black Santas, but that's okay. They're them. I'm too obsessed with a reference..
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radar
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John Green |
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e126e92
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I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.
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love
bittersweet
hazel-grace
the-fault-in-our-stars
sweet
sad
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John Green |
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ebd6b5e
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Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.
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young-adult
nerdfighters
mystery
ya
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John Green |
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b48e216
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Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou
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John Green |
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ad0cfa2
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I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!"
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optimism
life
love
inspirtational
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John Green |
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1f2edf2
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That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.
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John Green |
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5e78ad9
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We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
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John Green |
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05433bd
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It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?
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