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weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.
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John Green |
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But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And it's only in that time that we can see one another, because we see out of ourselves through our cracks and into others through theirs. 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 ..
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John Green |
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09036d1
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Some infinites are longer than other infinites
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john-green
tfios
the-fault-in-our-stars
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John Green |
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239e7e0
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I hated being careful, too - or wanted to, at least.
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John Green |
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188018f
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Abraham Maslow, I present to you Augustus Waters, whose existential curiosity dwarfed that of his well-fed, well-loved, healthy brethren.
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john-gree
hazel-grace
tfios
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John Green |
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ba7eae5
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and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death was Augustus Water.
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grief
friendship
love
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John Green |
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7310297
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Maybe we invented metaphor as a response to pain.
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John Green |
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ad0f8fc
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It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting. We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?
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John Green |
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If taking a pill makes you different, like, if it changes the way-down you . . . that's just a screwed up idea, you know? Who's deciding what me means--me or the employees of the factory that make Lexapro?
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John Green |
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I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to the words in the middle. (32)
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margo
unfair
john-green
paper-towns
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John Green |
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9d8b05b
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French. Feel. Finger. Fuck.
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sex
kiss
breasts
make-love
make-out
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John Green |
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And we'll call you...hmmm. Pudge." "Huh?" "Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right."
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wise
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prsyd: <> Sdysh khmy `Sby bwd lbkhnd zdm: blh. Htman prsyd: frd chTwrh? gftm: yh khm ywshtr psr jwn! tw ynjwr mwrd nbyd khwdt rw zydy mshtq nshwn bdy gft: drsth! wsh hmynh gftm frd. chwn dlm mykhd mshb dwbrh bbynmt, m mykhm khl shb rw w bh qsmty z frd rw Sbr khnm (less)
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John Green |
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c3438a1
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So I know she forgives me, just as I forgive her. Thomas Edison's last words were: "It's very beautiful over there." I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful."
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John Green |
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Well," Ben went on,"someone should just tell her to come on home, because she can find the world's largest balls right here in Orlando, Florida. They're located in a special display case known as 'my scrotum.'" Radar laughed, and Ben continued. "I mean seriously. My balls are so big that when you order french fries from McDonald's, you can choose one of four sizes: small, medium,large, and my balls."
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I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you for all my days if you just this once provide me with an invisibility cloak, come on, come on, please please invisibility cloak now now now-. It's very possible that Jane is thinking the same thing, I have no idea, because she's not talking either, and I can't look at her on account of how I'm blinded by embarrassment.
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invisibility-cloak
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John Green |
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ff41e29
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He kept thinking about one word--forever--and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage. It hurt like the worst ass-kicking he'd ever gotten.
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John Green |
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c8a57b1
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We have to forgive to survive the labyrinth.
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John Green |
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Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.
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John Green |
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d019f79
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I just want to stay away from people and read books.
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john-green
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John Green |
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e4986ba
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I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love.
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young-adult
romantic
young-adult-romance
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John Green |
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2a32b0b
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We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken
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John Green |
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It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting.
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John Green |
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he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. i have to believe that's a sign.
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romance
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John Green |
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I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.
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young-adult
humor
pee
paper-towns
leaving
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John Green |
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Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.
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John Green |
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1590cc8
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You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us
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kids
turtles-all-the-way-down
teen
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Sorry," I said to the Duke. "Eh, it's not your fault. It's Carla's fault. You were turning the wheel. Carla just wasn't listening. I knew I shouldn't have loved her. She's like all the others, Tobin; as soon as I confess my love, she abandons me." I laughed. "I never abandoned you," I said patting on her back. "Yeah, well, (a.) I never confessed my love to you, and (b.) I'm not even female to you."
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humor
love
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John Green |
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God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will." -The Colonel"
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John Green |
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You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, the little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that was not built for them by navigating a playground that was. . . Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Pete Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I know of heaven and all I know of ..
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So maybe we won't ever win the lottery, or marry royalty, or make that last second shot. That doesn't mean we won't have amazing adventures, meet exceptional people, and make indelible memories. The trick is to notice before it's too late.
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paper-towns-movie
paper-towns
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John Green |
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f9f4c72
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Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it.
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John Green |
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She spoke quietly then, the tiniest crack in her voice, and all at once Lacey Pemerton was not Lacey Pemberton. She was just--like, a person.
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John Green |
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Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.
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John Green |
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You can love someone so much, he thought. But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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John Green |
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Like Rabe'a, I didn't think people should believe in God because of heaven and hell. But I didn't feel a need to run around with a torch. You can't burn down a made-up place.
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John Green |
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19c185f
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Pudge, my friend, we are indefuckingstructible.
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John Green |
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2411713
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This one's for Alaska Young!
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funny
looking-for-alaska
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John Green |
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9587d4c
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Margo says, "I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right."
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John Green |
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32ea677
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Why would you try to kill this guy, Kevin? He's a genius. Nuts to your truce.
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John Green |
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c3edbf5
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And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
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oblivion
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John Green |
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19337ab
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She was up and down--from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes.
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John Green |
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b67cf55
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the afterlife mattered to me. Heaven and hell and reincarnation. As much as I wanted to know how Alaska had died, I wanted to know where she was now, if anywhere.
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John Green |
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c5f6fa4
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Parecia una eternidad, como si hubieramos estado juntos una breve pero infinita eternidad. Hay infinitos mas grandes que otros infinitos.
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