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daf53dd	Please stop," I said. "You're upsetting the black Santas."		quentin-jacobsen	John Green
ed95968	The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive		john-green-looking-for-alaska looking-for-alaska quotes	John Green
f5876cd	If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor..		illness cancer cancer-kids children-with-cancer	John Green
0e19ea6	I've gotten thrown out of thirty-seven straight games,' he said. 'Once or twice, I've had to go really crazy. I ran onto the court with eleven seconds left once and stole the ball from the other team. It wasn't pretty. But, you know. I have a streak to maintain.			John Green
598e2ed	She will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and everyone but herself and her mom in those last moments she spent as a person.			John Green
86b09fa	You are fairly smart," I said after a while. "You are fairly good at compliments," he answered."			John Green
d1f6f12	That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.		relationships	John Green
309b160	Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. So I looked him over as Patrick acknowledged for the thousandth time his ball-lessness etc. and soon it was a staring contest. After a while the boy smiled, and then finally his blue eyes glanced away. When he looked back at me, I flicked my eyebrows up to say, I win.		tfios the-fault-in-our-stars	John Green
daad9c6	I call my mom from the car. I tell her that Neutral Milk Hotel is playing at the Hideout and she says, "Who? What? You're hiding out?" And then I hum a few bars of one of their songs and Mom says, "Oh, I know that song. It's on the mix you made me," and I say, "Right," and she says, "Well you have to be back by eleven," and I say, "Mom this is a historical event. History doesn't have a curfew," and she says, "Back by eleven," and I say, "Fi..			John Green
dfd1b08	I couldn't be mad at him for even a moment, and only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation...			John Green
f3c8f8e	The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that's why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.			John Green
22692c0	And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation.		liberation paralyzing upsetting leaving perfect never-again	John Green
4902d5d	Night falls fast. Today is the past.		edna-st-vincent-millay	John Green
af3900f	I found his last words without too much searching. Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, 'Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.			John Green
ce8a806	I walked to Montevallo.' 'Forty miles?!' 'Forty-two,' he corrected me. 'Well. Forty-two there. Forty-two back. Eight-two miles. No. Eight-four. Yes. Eighty-four miles in forty-five hours.' 'What the hell's in Montevallo?' I asked. 'Not much. I just walked til I got too cold, and then I turned around.' 'You didn't sleep?' 'No, the dreams are terrible.			John Green
d9a4257	Breaking down that wall is the kind of story that might have a happy middle - oh, look, we broke down this wall, I'm going to look at you like a girl and you're going to look at me like a boy, and we're going to play a fun game called Can I Put My Hand There What About There What About There.			John Green
a25f8bc	I jog through the halls and then go upstairs to Jane's locker and carefully slip the note I wrote last night through the vent: To: The Locker Houdini From: Will Grayson Re: An Expert in the Field of Good Boyfriends? Dear Jane, Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes. Yours, Will Grayson			John Green
56b1c12	Imagine taking that last drive to the hospital," I said quietly. "The last time you'll ever drive a car." Without looking over at me, Augustus said, "You're killing my vibe here, Hazel Grace. I'm trying to observe young love in it's many-splendored awkwardness." "I think he's hurting her boob," I said. "Yes it's difficult to ascertain whether he is trying to arouse her or perform a breast exam."		young-love	John Green
a45ec7e	they love their hair because they're not smart enough to love anything more interesting		funny love hair	John Green
a5a7059	I make a gesture that is intended to convey, "Hey, no hurry, talk as long as you'd like," and probably actually conveys, "Hey, look at me! I have spastic hands."		spastic-hands	John Green
8d40f74	We gotta do something about this frigging swing set,' he said. 'I'm telling you, it's ninety percent of the problem			John Green
1ccbd17	Imagine you're trying to find someone, or even you're trying to find yourself, but you have no senses, no way to know where the walls are which way is forward or backward, what is water and what is air. You're senseless and shapeless--you feel like you can only describe what you are by identifying what you're not, and you're floating around in a body with no control. You don't get to decide who you like or where you live or when you eat or ..			John Green
8242424	Thoughts are only thoughts.They are not you, you belong to yourself even when your thoughts don't.			John Green
bf20541	I don't remember how it ended - if I went to bed or she did. In my memory, it doesn't end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever.			John Green
d371796	Pudge, what you must understand about me is that I am a deeply unhappy person.			John Green
450cd7f	I couldn't help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching them--it was a kind of sad I didn't mind, and so I just listened, letting all the happiness and the sadness of this ending swirl around in me, each sharpening the other. For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.		school	John Green
1c52405	You can't dingleberry that! That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry!		hassan	John Green
025a6e4	He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon strings seemed so beautiful as they rolled up and down with the wind, landing on the ground and then twirling and floating up again, falling and rising and falling and rising.		humor	John Green
5a46c84	She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.		twilight-saga vampire	John Green
c2f8fb8	if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane. aaa		woman rain reality life love hurricane qoute she	John Green
75622f6	Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.		live-lessons people-will-hurt-you people-suck	John Green
c743020	The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not.			John Green
ef12be4	So how's it going?" "Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?" "Yeah," I said. "Sucks," he said.			John Green
07f985c	The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.		sadness	John Green
2dcd2fd	You are not a grenade, not to us. Thinking about you dying makes us sad, Hazel, but you are not a grenade. You are amazing. You can't know, sweetie, because you've never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.			John Green
b14f9e7	Dude, if Kentucky is going to remind you of Paris, we're in a hell of a pickle.			John Green
5c227cd	Me: "If you want me to be a teenager, don't send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot." Mom: "You don't take pot, for starters." Me: "See, that's the kind of thing I'd know if you got me a fake ID."			John Green
c6b7ea9	Throughout the book, she refers to herself as "the side effect," which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible." --			John Green
ead6c93	Las cosas nunca suceden como yo las imagino.		john-green looking-for-alaska	John Green
5d4fc87	And then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him and out, the scent fading even as I lay there, my chest burning until I couldn't distinguish among the pains.		death hazel-grace sad	John Green
3c8cf42	Okay? Okay			John Green
d1a7a84	I lit up like a Christmas tree, Hazel Grace			John Green
cc3b2db	The madness of wealth," my mother mumbled. "Sometimes you think you're spending money, but all along the money's spending you."			John Green
053f02e	She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall.		trust	John Green

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