Quotes From "Turtles All The Way Down" By John Green

The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it...
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The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely. John Green
Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find...
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Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see. John Green
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People always talk like there's a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn't, at least not for me. I remember what I've imagined and imagine what I remember. John Green
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You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you. John Green
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I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now. John Green
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When you're on a Ferris wheel all anyone ever talks about is being on the Ferris wheel and the view from the Ferris wheel and whether the Ferris wheel is scary and how many more times it will go around. Dating is like that. Nobody who's doing it ever talks about anything else. I have no interest in dating. John Green
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Everyone wanted me to feed them that story–darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too. John Green
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It’s so weird, to know you’re crazy and not be able to do anything about it, you know? It’s not like you believe yourself to be normal. You know there is a problem. But you can’t figure a way through to fixing it. Because you can’t be sure, you know? John Green
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We are living the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune. John Green
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She noted, more than once, that the meteor shower was happening, beyond the overcast sky, even if we could not see it. Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds. John Green
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I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me. John Green
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But what I want to know is, is there a you independent of circumstances? Is there a way-down-deep me who is an actual, real person, the same person if she has money or not, the same if she goes to this school or that school? Or am I only a set of circumstances?- Aza John Green
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Photographs are just light and time" - Aza Holmes John Green
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You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us John Green
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In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt like we were in some place your body can't visit, some place with no ceiling and no walls and no floor and no instruments John Green