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Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist." "If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree." "I don't think defeatism is honest, " Dad answered. "I refuse to accept that."
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inspirational
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
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This is it. I can't even not smoke anymore
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john-green
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
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JP shouted, "TELL THEM WHAT YOU JUST DID TO EACH OTHER!" "Um," I said. "We kissed," the Duke said. "That's kinda gay," Keun said. "I AM A GIRL." "Yeah, I know, but so is Tobin," Keun said."
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humor
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John Green |
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I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.
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John Green |
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When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back..
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John Green |
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I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually.
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John Green |
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He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.
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John Green |
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Pero creo en el amor verdadero. ?Tu no? Creo que no todo el mundo puede conservar sus ojos, o no ponerse enfermo, o lo que sea, pero todo el mundo deberia tener amor verdadero, y deberia durar como minimo toda la vida.
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John Green |
40fd95a
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Ah Hazel Grace, hic sorun degil. Kalbimin senin tarafindan kirilmasi bir onur olurdu.
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türkçe
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John Green |
2cc16fe
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Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.
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john-green
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John Green |
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those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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John Green |
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To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman. And I had done many of the things she might have done: I had engineered a most unlikely prom coupling. I had quieted the hounds of caste warfare. I had come to feel comfortable inside the rat-infested haunted house where she did her best thinking. I had seen. I had listened. But I could not yet become the wounded person.
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margo-roth-spiegelman
quentin-jacobsen
paper-towns
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John Green |
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The way young people speak about one another's bodies says a great deal about our society. In today's world, boys are much more likely to objectify girl's bodies than the other way around. Boys will say amongst themselves that so-and-so has a nice rack, while girls will more likely say that a boy is cute, a term that describes both physical and emotional characteristics. This has the effect of turning girls into mere objects, while boys are..
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lara
maxx
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John Green |
959152d
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You think you're the painter, but you're the canvas
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John Green |
0808700
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Augustus half smiled. "Because you're beautiful, I enjoy looking at beaufitul people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence. . . . I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything."
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John Green |
08e00f6
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But what could I lose by continuing that had not already been lost?
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let-it-snow
lose
losing
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John Green |
1d07e62
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Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt
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John Green |
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That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.
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John Green |
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whatever you're worried about, you're bigger than the worries.
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John Green |
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Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.
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John Green |
782d874
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Who would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you?
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John Green |
c7c922e
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We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down onto the couch and sneaked a kiss onto my cheek.
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John Green |
eb09a40
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I'm not saying it was your fault. I'm saying it wasn't nice.
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John Green |
2c5f660
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It's a penis," Margo said, "in the same sense that Rhode Island is a state: it may have an illustrious history, but it sure isn't big."
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John Green |
5ee428c
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Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn't match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.
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gus
hazel-grace-lancaster
john-green
hazel-grace
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
848120f
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It is so hard to leave-until you leave.
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page-229
paper-towns
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John Green |
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It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.
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John Green |
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And then I was asleep. That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep, that sleep that is not particularly restful but difficult to wake up from all the same.
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John Green |
0ac5f04
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I have an Augustus Waters fetish," I explained." --
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fetishes
john-green
tfios
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John Green |
52572f0
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Sometimes the Universe wants to be noticed.
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John Green |
822f916
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The thing about That Guy Is a Gigolo,' Radar says, 'I mean, the thing about it as a game, is that 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 |
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Estoy enamorado de ti, y no estoy en la situacion de negarme el simple placer de decir verdades. Estoy enamorado de ti, y se que el amor es un grito en el vacio, y se que el olvido es inevitable, y que estamos todos condenados y que llegara un dia en que todo nuestro trabajo se volvera al polvo, y que el sol se tragara la unica tierra que alguna vez tendremos, y que estoy enamorado de ti.
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John Green |
b5d8797
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So it's your death suit." "Correct. Don't you have a death outfit?" "Yeah," I said. "It's a dress I bought for my fifteenth birthday party. But I don't wear it on dates."
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John Green |
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Que mas? Ella es tan hermosa. No te cansas de verla. Nunca te preocupas si es mas inteligente que tu: sabes que lo es. Es graciosa sin querer serlo. La amo. Soy tan afortunado de amarla
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john-green
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
93642f9
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I don't like to throw the L-word around; it's too good and rare a feeling to cheapen with overuse.
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John Green |
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Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
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present
time
literature
past
tense
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John Green |
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You don't get to choose if you fet hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you.
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John Green |
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Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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promises
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John Green |
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Soy como. Como. Soy como una granada, mama. Soy una granada y en algun momento voy a estallar y me gustaria reducir al minimo las victimas, ?de acuerdo?" Mi padre ladeo un poco la cabeza hacia un lado, como un perrito reganado. "Soy una granada," le dije de nuevo. "Solo quiero mantenerme alejada de la gente y leer libros, pensar y estar con ustedes porque no hay nada que yo pueda hacer sobre danarlos; estan demasiado involucrados, asi que p..
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John Green |
7d9150c
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We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.
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John Green |
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So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise has a ten-yard head start. In the time it takes you to run that ten yards, the tortoise has moved one yard. And then in the time it takes you to make up that distance, the tortoise goes a bit farther, and so on forever. You are faster than the tortoise but you can never catch him; you can only decrease his lead.
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John Green |
8f1b560
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I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed to me that this was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die.
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live
escape
die
thought
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700d7be
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With all the planning she'd done, she must have known she was leaving, and even she couldn't have been totally immune to the feeling. She'd had good days here. And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I'd done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up ..
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John Green |
0a78ec3
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Does it hurt?' I nodded. 'You know Sekou Sundiata, in a poem, he said the most important part of the body 'ain't the heart or the lungs or the brain. The biggest, most important part of the body is the part that hurts.
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