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John Green
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...myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
Breaking up isn’t something that gets done to you; it’s something that happens with you.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
I don’t think God gives a shit if we have a dog or if a woman wears shorts. I think He gives a shit about whether you’re a good person.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
Maybe I want strangers to think I’m cool since people who actually know me don’t.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
Stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also the only way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
The best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
The future will erase everything—there’s no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
There’s a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
You can see into the future if you have a basic understanding of how people are likely to act.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
Grief does not change you, it reveals you.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

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