Quotes by John Green

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There is always the risk: something is good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward. All at once, she sees you looking at her, and then she doesn't want to seem flirty, because she doesn't want you to think she likes you. It's such a ...

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I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.

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You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move on.

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It just seemed like telling the truth would mean admitting some weakness

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Lady and gentleman, when my parents left Korea with nothing but the clothes on their backs and the considerable wealth they had amassed in the shipping business, they had a dream. They had a dream that one day amid the snowy hilltops of western North...

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Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it. And I had thought the thought.

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Can you just trust in our love, without asking me to prove it every single second?

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Its not what the universe gives us that matters, but what we give the universe

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I followed your footsteps," he said, in answer to the unspoken question. "Snow makes it easy." I had been tracked, like a bear. "Sorry to make you go to all that trouble," I said. "I didn't have to go that far, really. You're about three streets over...

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Isn’t it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?

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Just be happy. And if you can't be happy, do things that make you happy. Or do nothing with people that make you happy.

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God is the reason I’m surviving, but he’s sure used you in my life wonderfully. I love you.

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I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a frie...

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One day I realized, without God, nothing matters. So, I asked Him into my heart.

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I do hope that when the day comes, whether in 1, 10, or 100 years, I don’t want you to think of me and feel sad.

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Just be happy, and if you can’t be happy, do things that make you happy or do nothing with the people that make you happy.

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No me gusta la frase "amigos de Internet", porque implica que la gente que conoces en línea no son realmente tus amigos, que de alguna manera la amistad es menos real o significativo para ti, ya que ocurre a través de Skype o mensajes de texto. La ...

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In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life, that it is possible to live with depression without being consumed by it, and that meaning in life is found together, in family and friendship that...

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I forget, because it’s hard to realize that the same person who gives you so much love, and to whom you give so much in return, can go through the kinds of pain and suffering that nothing you do can alleviate.

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Inside the building, the sun lights up segments of the rotting wooden floor through the many holes in the roof. As I look for her, I register things: the soggy floorboards. The smell of almonds, like her. An old claw-footed bathtub in a corner. So ma...

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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.

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