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Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself. John Green
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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and theyll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back. John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
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I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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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. John Green, Looking for Alaska
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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. John Green, Looking for Alaska
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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 believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful. John Green, Looking for Alaska
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My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane. John Green, Looking for Alaska
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You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them. John Green
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That's the thing about pain...it demands to be felt. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you

never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. John Green, Looking for Alaska
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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person. John Green, Paper Towns
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I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
tags: doomed, inevitable, love, oblivion, pleasure, simple 2,314 people liked it

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I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous

and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane. John Green, Looking for Alaska
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There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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What a slut time is. She screws everybody. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books. John Green, Looking for Alaska
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What the hell is that?" I laughed. "It's my fox hat."

"Your fox hat?" "Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat." "Why are you wearing your fox hat?" I asked. "Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox. John Green, Looking for Alaska
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because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-thechair-cant-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what theyre saying is you like stuff. Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness. John Green
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What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
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Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting. John Green
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What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous. John Green, Looking for Alaska

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They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting. John Green, Looking for Alaska
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Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is. John Green, Paper Towns
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It's not because I want to make out with her." Hold on." He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'd just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. "I just did some calculations, and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit John Green, Looking for Alaska
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That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste. John Green, Paper Towns
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The town was paper, but the memories were not. John Green, Paper Towns

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There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows thats what everyone else does. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps. John Green, Looking for Alaska
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Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
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The marks humans leave are too often scars. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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I may die young, but at least I'll die smart. John Green, Looking for Alaska
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At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved. John Green, Looking for Alaska
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Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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It always shocked me when I realized that I wasnt the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things. John Green, Looking for Alaska
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It is so hard to leaveuntil you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. John Green, Paper Towns
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Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college. John Green, Paper Towns
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If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. John Green, Paper Towns
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He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we cant know better until knowing better is useless. And as I walked back to give Takumis note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to

know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart. John Green, Looking for Alaska
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Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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Lucky Charms are like the vampires of breakfast cereal. They're magical, they're delicious, they're a little bit dangerous and bad for you. They initially make you feel great, but then over time you realize that maybe your relationship with Lucky Charms is just a little bit unhealthy and you start to think, 'Maybe I don't want to be in a long-term relationship with a breakfast cereal that tastes delicious but damages my health.' But then the Lucky Charms gets all stalker on you and for some reason you kind of like that. It makes you feel special. So yeah, you spend your life with Lucky Charms. That's awesome. That's a great way to... get diabetes. John Green
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Some people have lives; some people have music. John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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I didnt need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back. John Green, Paper Towns
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Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old. John Green, Paper Towns
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Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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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.
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My thoughts are just stars I can't fathom into constellations.

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You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
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I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
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The truth resists simplicity.

John Green
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I was thinking about the word "handle" and all the unholdable things that get handled.
John Green
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Russia chose Christianity as a national religion over Islam because of Islam's prohibition of alcohol. The ruler said, "Drink, is the joy, of the Russian.'
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If you step on the proletariat for too long, you might end up with a communist revolution
John Green
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You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just

get caught in being something, being special or cool, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.
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If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?
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You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

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All salvation is temporary. A bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever,

Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing.
John Green
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Pain demands to be felt.

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I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
John Green
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I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool.

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I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have ---the only way of learning how to write a story.

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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
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I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointment in the Department of Having a Voice That Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. And I liked that he had two names.
John Green
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I started thinking about them running their hurdle races, and jumping over these totally arbitrary objects that had been set in their path. And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, This would go faster if we got rid of the hurdles.
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When did John say "to be human is to catch the falling person"?
Anonymous I believe the origin is this post on his tumblr about him stage diving at LeakyCon.
7. I guess the real metaphor is not you-can-only-make-stuff-if-people-hold-youup; the real metaphor here is that together-things-happen-that-can-neverhappen-alone, which is a very important thing for an introverted and socially anxious person like me to realize. I guess these days this is a politically charged statement, but it seems to me manifestly true: You make nothing alone. Human beings are not mere competitors, and human life is not merely competition. We are collaborators. To be human is to catch the falling person. -John Green
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enflamme-le-ciel: Oh, I also made this today. Woowoo~ I wanted todo a little Thought Bubble-ish thing xD So I put those awkward speech bubbles there.
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Minimalist posters Looking For Alaska

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-theperfectmistake: And the John Green spam continues. (Taken with Instagram) If only my sister posted stuff like this on instagram instead of iphone snapshots of her McFrappe
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Thats why I like you You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via hourglasss)

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An eye for an eye leaves the whole world monocular.

John Green (via coroarchenland)

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John should really consider doing non-toxic-washable-magic-marker-face.

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I think Ill obey the speed limit today. YOLO!

John Green, on the correct usage of 2012s official motto. #YOLO submitted by beardapedia
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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things wed done were less real and important than they had been hours before.


Hazel Lancaster, The Fault in Our Stars, John Green (via svdbygrcty)
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You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how youll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.


Alaska Young (Looking For Alaska, John Green)
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effyeahnerdfighters: nerdfightersdontfightnerds: I beg them, and they refuse. Were here for you, John. This is a safe space. Together, we can beat this.
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