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JOHN GREEN Cheap people often are not very happy because they love money more than they love their families
CELSO CUKIERKORN Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
NATALIE PORTMAN I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and mo...
DENIS O'HARE I just love when girls rock short hair, because they can't hide behind anything. I feel more emp...
MAREN MORRIS We all fall in love with someone for the person they are - not because of their race, their hair, or...
GARRETT CLAYTON I love festivals in that people seem to let their hair down more. I love that people run from stage ...
IMELDA MAY Brains are an asset to the woman in love who's smart enough to hide 'em.
MAE WEST The kids love it because they get to talk to their friends on the way, and it's more interesting tha...
RACHEL HALL Because the only way anyone will ever be okay with me is if they love me. Really love me enough to n...
KATIE MCGARRY John Kerry and John Edwards would be smart to make their case for gay and lesbian fairness by not me...
PATRICK GUERRIERO Lucille didn't care about messing herself up. A lot of stars of her stature wouldn't do physical com...
GALE GORDON This is a love story with six protagonists, ... And it's about a girl on the cusp of womanhood, a gi...
MARK ADAMO Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a ques...
ANDY SERKIS No one can remain married today because they are not married to the one they love, they are married ...
SISTER SOULJAH Obviously, I'm disappointed because I'd love to keep John and Ed together.
BROOKS BOYER They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.
KURT VONNEGUT Pittsburg State is always an interesting team to play because they love to control the tempo, and th...
DAVE SLIFER They do not love that do not show their love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They do not love, that do not show their love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But love is something that has to be as selfish as it is unselfish. You can't make yourself love som...
APRILYNNE PIKE I love to act, but business is more interesting because it's more competitive and involves more ...
LARRY WILCOX Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.
SHELLEY DUVALL It always seemed so ridiculous that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's li...
JOHN GREEN I love talking to interesting people - people like O.J. Simpson, Andretti... I love champions. A cha...
KIRK DOUGLAS Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care but because they don't. A person...
JENNIFER GREEN You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
QUEEN LATIFAH Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
JOSEPH JOUBERT I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
NED VIZZINI There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal;...
EMMET FOX This is something we are very excited about. People love it because they don't have to worry about c...
DAVID BOURGON I love, love, love John Mayer. He's incredible. I love all of his records and even his John Maye...
SHANE HARPER Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less. -Unknow...
UNKNOWN LOVE QUOTE I'd love to go back to Broadway; I'd love to do animation; I'd love to do hair and make-...
BROOKE ELLIOTT Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
JOSEPH JOUBERT They would not be smart enough to pour piss out of their boots, if the instructions were written on ...
GARRISON KEILLOR I love Soul, R+B, Electronic, and good pop. Really, the only thing I don't listen to is country ...
JANE BADLER They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It'...
J.D. SALINGER We need to protect the kids by giving them something to do, ... (It's about) making them interested,...
JAMES BROWN I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
HANSIE CRONJE I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.
ALBER ELBAZ Love those who love you. Love those who love you not. Love those who hate you. Love those who hate y...
ABHISHEK KUMAR I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more i...
DAVID S. GOYER I love Siberians because they are so beautiful to look at. They are certainly not pushovers, though;...
CONNIE STEVENS The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is...
JOHN BERGER People love their homes more than they ever did,
BARBARA CAPLAN Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
ANN PATCHETT You will know when the crop is germinating when you see the geese in the field because they love the...
GERHARD VERDOORN White people love rock climbing almost more than they love camping. This is
because the activit...
CHRISTIAN LANDER I love you!" he shouted, his eyes glowing laser green.
"I love you, okay? I'm not some hopeless...
LILI ST. CROW You don't love someone because they're a dream of perfection. You love them because of the way they ...
LANI WENDT YOUNG I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating som...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I would really love to sit with Kathryn Hepburn because I find her so interesting.
COBIE SMULDERS In British culture, redheads get teased at school. But I've grown up enough to realize I love my...
LILY COLE don't love because their love, but love because it comes from your heart.. Emmanuel Rusaka
EMMANUEL RUSAKA AKSANTI People ask, "Are you important enough for me to love you?" But they've got it all wrong. When you lo...
C. JOYBELL C. Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to t...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to t...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to t...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to t...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to t...
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER A samurai chooses to serve a master and does it out of respect and love, not because they are forced...
ALEXEI MAXIM RUSSELL I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love th...
L.J. SMITH I think in English history a very interesting character is John Lilburne. Very interesting character...
JEREMY CORBYN I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women
CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to l...
MARY ASTELL The desire for the creation to exist - not for a return on investment, not for what it may say about...
JAMES ROUSE I'm not as smart as CJ. I love playing her because I can fool people into believing I'm incredibly b...
ALLISON JANNEY He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. I John
BIBLE Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.
EVA HERZIGOVA I like information. I love when smart people make me think of something in a new way.
TERRY FRANCONA I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents’ prayers . Because they dance with love and pa...
ALI SHARIATI It's going to be wild. I'm anticipating it will be the loudest crowd I've ever been around. I know t...
ADAM BURISH they do not kiss
but they both want to
instead their feet touch and so do their arms
...
BRIGID LOWRY I think the business community is smart enough to realise that just having a trade union is not enou...
MARJORIE SCARDINO I love the stars.
Because they can't say anything.
I love the stars.
Because they do ...
NATSUKI TAKAYA Sometimes you just love a person, not because they love you, but because the love YOU have is perfec...
TAMIKA GILMORE I'm not going to play something just because of stereotypes, ... I'm going to play it because I love...
JUSTIN UPTON Just because you love someone doesn't mean they will love you back, love is a feeling not a deal..
OLASOT John Goodman's pretty dark - I love John Goodman.
TODD PHILLIPS Anyone I'm with has to love my son just as much as they love me, if not more, because I don'...
BLAC CHYNA I would love to do something in the thriller category. Not so much horror, but I would love to do a ...
BROOKE NEVIN Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone ...
PATTI STANGER A person does not become clean and pure enough that they are then worthy of God's love and are exalt...
MITCHELL JORGENSEN Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mer...
J. KRISHNAMURTI Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mer...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Höderer: You don't love men, Hugo. You love only principles.
Hugo: Men? Why should I love the...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, c...
AYELET WALDMAN When we are not in love too much, we are not in love enough
COMTE DEBUSSY-RABUTIN Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
MAYA ANGELOU Have enough courage to trust love one more time. And always one more time.
MAYA ANGELOU I'd love it if they would. Everyone has a green light, just shoot it.
DEAN MCFADDEN They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I knew I would hate my best memory because it would prove that people could fake love or that love c...
MONA SIMPSON Theres a reason why theyre not amateurs anymore.
ALEX HAMILTON Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.
ZAHI HAWASS Anyone can like their job, ... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your jo...
ZAHI HAWASS My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wo...
GLORIA ESTEFAN You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
VICTOR HUGO I love going to the hair salon. I'm Spanish. I think it's more of a Latina thing to go to th...
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JOHN GREEN The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.
JOHN GREEN That smile could end wars and cure cancer.
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the promises they’re making when they make them,” I sai...
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Hazel Grace, tell me I hav...
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"I...
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JOHN GREEN Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end ...
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JOHN GREEN He’s not that smart.”
“She’s right,” Augustus says. “It’s just that most re...
JOHN GREEN All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a tor...
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JOHN GREEN Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...
JOHN GREEN I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.
JOHN GREEN While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action...
JOHN GREEN the world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world
JOHN GREEN Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds ou...
JOHN GREEN I fell in love like you would fall asleep: slowly and then all at once.
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JOHN GREEN Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted...
JOHN GREEN Gus: "It tastes like..."
Me: "Food."
Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellentl...
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JOHN GREEN I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does ...
JOHN GREEN I love you present tense.
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JOHN GREEN There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the ...
JOHN GREEN As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean:
"Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner conce...
JOHN GREEN And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in...
JOHN GREEN All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute th...
JOHN GREEN There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was ...
JOHN GREEN I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.
JOHN GREEN And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure ...
JOHN GREEN Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an...
JOHN GREEN That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjecti...
JOHN GREEN I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is ine...
JOHN GREEN 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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JOHN GREEN We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
JOHN GREEN I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was t...
JOHN GREEN there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars
JOHN GREEN I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't reall...
JOHN GREEN I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.
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JOHN GREEN Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy...
JOHN GREEN It's not because I want to make out with her."
Hold on." He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excit...
JOHN GREEN 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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JOHN GREEN Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said.
"R...
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JOHN GREEN Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is...
JOHN GREEN Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
JOHN GREEN When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, t...
JOHN GREEN What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
JOHN GREEN The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
JOHN GREEN Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than...
JOHN GREEN You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I...
JOHN GREEN Some people have lives; some people have music.
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JOHN GREEN As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, ...
JOHN GREEN Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to t...
JOHN GREEN Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc...
JOHN GREEN Some infinities are bigger than other infinities...
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JOHN GREEN Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
JOHN GREEN What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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JOHN GREEN You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the f...
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JOHN GREEN The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember w...
JOHN GREEN Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory.
JOHN GREEN Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this."
"Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish....
JOHN GREEN Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.
JOHN GREEN You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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JOHN GREEN The marks humans leave are too often scars.
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JOHN GREEN Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew wha...
JOHN GREEN It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.'
'Right, i...
JOHN GREEN Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc...
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JOHN GREEN I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, ok...
JOHN GREEN You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All effo...
JOHN GREEN 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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JOHN GREEN Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always
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JOHN GREEN Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom...
JOHN GREEN Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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JOHN GREEN May I see you again?" he asked. There was an endearing nervousness in his voice.
I smile...
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JOHN GREEN Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.
JOHN GREEN The world is not a wish-granting factory.
JOHN GREEN My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
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JOHN GREEN Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but ...
JOHN GREEN You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!
JOHN GREEN I mean, we're ninjas."
"Well maybe you're a ninja," I said
"You're just...
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JOHN GREEN We were kissing.
I thought: This is good.
I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad...
JOHN GREEN What the hell is that?" I laughed.
"It's my fox hat."
"Your fox hat?"
"Yeah, Pudge. M...
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JOHN GREEN Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
JOHN GREEN We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
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JOHN GREEN Sometimes I don't get you,' I said.
She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the t...
JOHN GREEN That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
JOHN GREEN I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassi...
JOHN GREEN I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit.
JOHN GREEN I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to us...
JOHN GREEN Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war
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JOHN GREEN Have you really read all those books in your room?”
Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’...
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JOHN GREEN I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.
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JOHN GREEN I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fu...
JOHN GREEN When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
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JOHN GREEN I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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JOHN GREEN It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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JOHN GREEN What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant puddin...
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JOHN GREEN You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.
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JOHN GREEN It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.
JOHN GREEN I'm in love with you," he said quietly.
"Augustus," I said.
"I am," he said. H...
JOHN GREEN I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. You could almost see through his eyes they ...
JOHN GREEN And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
JOHN GREEN -so if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's wha...
JOHN GREEN Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
JOHN GREEN You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
JOHN GREEN What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
JOHN GREEN Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the sid...
JOHN GREEN What's that?"
"The laundry basket?"
"No, next to it."
"I don't see anything next to i...
JOHN GREEN Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.
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JOHN GREEN We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels -...
JOHN GREEN I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not tru...
JOHN GREEN Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his large...
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JOHN GREEN Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.
JOHN GREEN 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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JOHN GREEN How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?
JOHN GREEN AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.
'So that's Sara,' I said.
'Yes.'
'She seems nice.
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JOHN GREEN You can't just make me different and then leave
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"DO NOT OBJECTIFY W...
JOHN GREEN But why Alaska?' I asked her.
'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut...
JOHN GREEN Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better th...
JOHN GREEN I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
JOHN GREEN You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.
JOHN GREEN I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don’t t...
JOHN GREEN I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or wha...
JOHN GREEN There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly lear...
JOHN GREEN Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you�...
JOHN GREEN I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I ...
JOHN GREEN If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit,...
JOHN GREEN If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.
JOHN GREEN I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like yo...
JOHN GREEN Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
JOHN GREEN Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will
JOHN GREEN I responded to this development with the kind of sophisticated language for which I am famous. "Crap...
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