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It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in. (John Green (author))
Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one. View quote
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Maybe all the strings inside him broke. View quote
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Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die. View quote
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Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters. View quote
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The Venn Diagram of guys who don't like smart girls and guys you don't want to date is a circle. View quote
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'What's the meaning of life?' Other people. View quote
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When people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals. View quote
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She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale. "DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted. Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts." "That's not any better! View quote
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God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will. View quote
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[We] had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. (John Green (author))
I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart. View quote
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When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. View quote
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Thomas Edison's last words were, "It's very beautiful over there." I don't know where there is, but I know it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful. View quote
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But mothers lie. It's in the job description. View quote
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I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter. View quote
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Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined. View quote
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The thing about That Guy Is a Gigolo," Radar says, "I mean, the thing about it as a game, is that in the end it reveals a lot more about the person doing the imagining than it does about the person being imagined. View quote
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I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I've never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero's errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done. (John Green (author))
Love is the most common miracle. View quote
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I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?”. View quote
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And we'll call you... hmmm. Pudge." "Huh?" "Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right. View quote
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That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it? View quote
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