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6fdb1ff
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I tried to go to sleep with my headphones still on, but then after a while my mom and dad came in, and my mom grabbed Bluie from the shelf and hugged him to her stomach, and my dad sat down in my desk chair, and without crying he said, '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 r..
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love
parents-and-children
sickness
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John Green |
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2869553
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It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.
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John Green |
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be3df12
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Television is a passivity.
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John Green |
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a564872
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I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish" he answered, still kissing me. I laughed. "I have an Augustus Waters fetish" I explained."
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john-gree
hazel-grace
tfios
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John Green |
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125691c
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For some reason, I wanted to tell him the truth. "Whether it hurts is kind of irrelevant." "That's a pretty good life motto," he said." --
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John Green |
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39a9aed
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I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.
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John Green |
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74cc7e9
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You'd think solving mysteries would bring you closure, that closing the loop would comfort and quiet your mind. But it never does. The truth always disappoints.
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page-267
john-green
turtles-all-the-way-down
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John Green |
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6cece84
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I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout out 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'm in love with you.
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love
augustus
cuteness
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John Green |
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4e34985
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You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.
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John Green |
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56d845d
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I'm full of shit. I'm never myself. I've got a Southern accent around the oldsters; I'm a nerd for graphs and deep thoughts around you; I'm Miss Bubbly Pretty Princess with Colin. I'm nothing. The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.
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John Green |
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0c564a0
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I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.
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John Green |
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caa5ae9
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Some infinities are bigger than other infinities...
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John Green |
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36e813b
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The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her
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moving-on
old-friends
reminisce
looking-back
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John Green |
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a247f23
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The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not.
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John Green |
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54d414a
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But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else. I could never have imagined Margo's anger at being found, or the story she was writing over. But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in.
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imagining
john-green
paper-towns
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John Green |
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19bc06d
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The minister said, "Let us pray," but as everyone else bowed their head, I could only stare slack-jawed at the sight of Peter Van Houten. After a moment, he whispered, "We gotta fake pray," and bowed his head."
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John Green |
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91f5dca
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You're joining us for dinner, I hope?" asked his mom. She was small and brunette and vaguely mousy. "I guess?" I said. "I have to be home by ten. Also I don't, um, eat meat?" "No problem. We'll vegetarianize some," she said. "Animals are just too cute?" Gus asked. "I want to minimize the number of deaths I am responsible for," I said. Gus opened his mouth to respond but then stopped himself."
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vegetarianism
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John Green |
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83caed7
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She was nothing but good and I was nothing but bad, but then she died, and I didn't.
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John Green |
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0176516
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I said 'I'm sorry, sir, but we don't speak Swedish.' 'Well, of course you don't. Neither do I. Who the hell speaks Swedish?
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John Green |
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e5c0882
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And since she drove to work every morning, I could only use the car on weekends. Well, weekends and the middle of the goddamned night.
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John Green |
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3423137
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What a slut time is. She screws everybody. a
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John Green |
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610cf8b
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Breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; its something that happens with you.
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John Green |
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44e00a8
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I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that's not an easy thing to do. I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.
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John Green |
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6c0162d
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I guess I had been looking toward the Encouragement above the TV, a drawing of an angel with the caption Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy? (This is an old argument in the field of Thinking About Suffering, and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries, but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate.)
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John Green |
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26864e3
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I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural.
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John Green |
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7b2e628
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I opened the door. He looked down at my shirt and smiled. "Funny," he said. "Don't call my boobs funny," I answered."
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jogn-green
tfios
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John Green |
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cbef5e6
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It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist.
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the-fault-in-our-stars
ya
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John Green |
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195fa72
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It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.
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John Green |
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3133874
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He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot--a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile.
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John Green |
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a05d84c
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I brought you a snack," Takumi said, dropping an oatmeal cream pie onto my book. "Very nutritious," I smiled. "You've got your oats. You've got your meal. You've got your cream. It's a fuckin' food pyramid."
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humor
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John Green |
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399ec36
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You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting.
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John Green |
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a53608a
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He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless abandon. Chip did not believe in having a sock drawer or a T-shirt drawer. He believed that all drawers were created equal and filled each with whatever fit. My mother would have died.
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John Green |
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d32a8fe
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I have guts, just not when it counts.
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guts
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John Green |
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d39e5bd
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She's the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.
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John Green |
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73a0d57
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My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations.
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John Green |
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10f9f09
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You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.
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funny
late
show-up
smart
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John Green |
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d84086c
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Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.
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wisdom-quote
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John Green |
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a373f22
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On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are.
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understanding-others
john-green
paper-towns
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John Green |
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3e2e18d
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And I wanted to tell him that even though I'd never been in love, I knew what it was like to be a feeling, to be not just surrounded by it but also permeated by it, the way my grandmother talked about God being everywhere.
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John Green |
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457d7f6
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I'm really not looking to date anyone." I know people often say that when secretly looking for a romantic partner, but I mean it. I definitely felt attracted to some people, and I liked the idea of being with someone, but the actual mechanics of it didn't much suit my talents. Like, parts of typical romantic relationships that made me anxious included 1. Kissing; 2. Having to say the right things to avoid hurt feelings; 3. Saying more wrong..
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John Green |
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abfd724
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depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
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understanding
vain
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John Green |
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a8e191b
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Esa es la cosa sobre el dolor --dijo Augustus, y luego me miro--. Demanda ser sentido.
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John Green |
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2a63089
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He smirked. "You're an incorrect concept." "I know. That's why I'm being taken out of the rotation."
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John Green |
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65d7608
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You're so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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John Green |