Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about.

John Green
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When we list our favorite books, we can list them by author or title. But what about the people we love and all the things we want to tell them? We can easily name fourteen dead people and see their names on a tombstone, but what about the many others who don’t have tombstones? We can easily list those we’ve lost in our family, but not those that we’ve lost in other ways.

Source: The Fault In Our Stars

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