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John Green quotes
“You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.”
“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
“If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
“I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.”
“They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.”
“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
“I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
“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.”
“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (…) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to
“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.”
“What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?”
“You can love someone so much… But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
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.