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Nothing ever happens like you imagine it willJohn Green
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I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.John Green
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I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.John Green
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Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.John Green
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What about the rest of your life?" She shrugged. "What about it?"" Aren't you worried about, like, forever?"" Forever is composed of nows, " she says.John Green
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It is so hard to leave–until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.John Green
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As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.John Green
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Dude, I don’t want to talk about Lacey’s prom shoes. And I’ll tell you why: I have this thing that makes me really uninterested in prom shoes. It’s called a penis.John Green
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As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.John Green
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Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds, " I added. Radar tapped a locker twice with his fist to show his approval, and then came back with another. "Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force.John Green
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But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafnessJohn Green
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You just gotta tell her, man, ’ I said. ‘You just gotta say, “Angela, I really like you, but there’s something you need to know: when we go to my house and hook up, we’ll be watched by the twenty-four hundred eyes of twelve hundred black Santas.John Green
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Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murderJohn Green
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Imagine others complexly.John Green
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Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off." Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. "You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.John Green
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All along – not only since she left, but for a decade before – I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to. Someone who – because no one thought she was a person – had no one to really talk to. .John Green
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Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.John Green
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Maybe its like you said before, all of us being cracked open. Like each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And then things happen - these people leave us, or don’t love us, or don’t get us, or we don’t get them, and we lose and fail and hurt one another. And the vessel starts to crack in places. And I mean, yeah once the vessel cracks open, the end becomes inevitable. Once it starts to rain inside the Osprey, it will never be remodeled. But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And its only that time that we 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 inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.John Green
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You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.John Green
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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.John Green