John Green quote: "...there are books...which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal."

Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.
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The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.
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That smile could end wars and cure cancer.
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You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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Well, while you were in the bathroom, I sat down at this picnic table here in Bumblefug, Kentucky, a...
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you can never love someone as much as you miss them.
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There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his hea...
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Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again an...
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I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours sho...
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I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so ha...
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True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most...
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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 wor...
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Headline?" he asked.
"'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said.
"'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Need...
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He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.
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Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's c...
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Van Houten,
I’m a good person but a shitty writer. You’re a shitty person but a good writer...
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Do you have a Wish?' he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the...
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Sometimes people don’t understand
the promises they’re making when they make them,” I sai...
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I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said.

"And it is my privilege and my resp...
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You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurt...
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Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something.

Hazel Grace, tell me I hav...
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What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s...
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I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish" he answered, still kissing me. I laughed.
"I...
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I have an Augustus Waters fetish," I explained.
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Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St...
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Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end ...
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Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.
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There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection o...
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He’s not that smart.”

“She’s right,” Augustus says. “It’s just that most re...
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All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a tor...
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A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heart-broken and di...
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I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasu...
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Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. W...
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Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...
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I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.
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While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action...
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the world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world
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Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds ou...
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I fell in love like you would fall asleep: slowly and then all at once.
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I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with August...
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Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted...
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Gus: "It tastes like..."
Me: "Food."
Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellentl...
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But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassiu...
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I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does ...
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I love you present tense.
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She loved mysteries so much, that she became one.
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It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them...
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There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the ...
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As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean:
"Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner conce...
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And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in...
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All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute th...
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There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was ...
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I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.
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And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure ...
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Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an...
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That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjecti...
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I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is ine...
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I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevole...
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Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that i...
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If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love ...
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We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
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I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was t...
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there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars
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I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't reall...
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I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.
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Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome...
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Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy...
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It's not because I want to make out with her."
Hold on." He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excit...
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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 tr...
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They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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Principled hate is a hell of a lot stronger than "Boy, I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown me ...
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Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said.

"R...
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So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I w...
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Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is...
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Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
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When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, t...
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What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than...
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You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I...
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Some people have lives; some people have music.
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, ...
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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to t...
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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc...
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Some infinities are bigger than other infinities...
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It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities ar...
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There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection o...
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Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
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What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about sufferi...
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You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the f...
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That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pret...
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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember w...
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Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory.
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Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this."
"Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish....
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Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.
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You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska t...
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Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am ...
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The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew wha...
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It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.'
'Right, i...
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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc...
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Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to den...
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I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, ok...
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You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All effo...
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That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in t...
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I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the con...
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Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always
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It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the ...
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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom...
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he h...
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May I see you again?" he asked. There was an endearing nervousness in his voice.

I smile...
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There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no ...
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Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.
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The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
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Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, an...
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Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but ...
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You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!
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I mean, we're ninjas."

"Well maybe you're a ninja," I said

"You're just...
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The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exa...
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There are times when it is appropriate, even preferable, to get an erection when someone's face is i...
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We were kissing.
I thought: This is good.
I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad...
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What the hell is that?" I laughed.
"It's my fox hat."
"Your fox hat?"
"Yeah, Pudge. M...
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I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their in...
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Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
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We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
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It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you....
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Sometimes I don't get you,' I said.
She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the t...
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That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassi...
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I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit.
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I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to us...
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Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war
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And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall...
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Have you really read all those books in your room?”

Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’...
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He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, a...
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Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why...
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It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and fe...
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I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.
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What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those ...
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I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fu...
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When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
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pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A ...
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Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful. And that is a powerful opiate, cert...
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I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again....
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It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth,...
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[I]t occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, beca...
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Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will… but then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing eve...
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What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant puddin...
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I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a w...
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You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how ...
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You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.
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The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, o...
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It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.
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I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. H...
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I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. You could almost see through his eyes they ...
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And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
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-so if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's wha...
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Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
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You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
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Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the sid...
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What's that?"
"The laundry basket?"
"No, next to it."
"I don't see anything next to i...
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Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.
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For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and too...
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We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels -...
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I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not tru...
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Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his large...
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The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tighteni...
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Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.
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You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.
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But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more tim...
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How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?
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AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.
'So that's Sara,' I said.
'Yes.'
'She seems nice.
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The pigs can't stop the fox; I'm too quick,' Takumi said to himself. "I can rhyme while I run; I'm t...
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I’m just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.
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You can't just make me different and then leave
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She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale.
"DO NOT OBJECTIFY W...
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But why Alaska?' I asked her.

'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut...
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Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better th...
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I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
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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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I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don’t t...
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I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or wha...
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There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly lear...
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Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you�...
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I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I ...
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If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit,...
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If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.
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I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like yo...
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Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
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Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will
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...there are books...which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

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