John Green quote: "Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don’t know who you are or what your name is or where you’re from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter’s real and you’re not."

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but ...
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Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, an...
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What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant puddin...
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We were kissing.
I thought: This is good.
I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad...
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the world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world
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I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with August...
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But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassiu...
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All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute th...
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Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that i...
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Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.
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All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a tor...
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We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
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It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you....
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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, a...
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The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, o...
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You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.
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As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
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It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.'
'Right, i...
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It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the ...
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Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he h...
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When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, t...
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Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory.
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What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
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Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about sufferi...
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It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities ar...
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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Qué engañoso creer que una persona es algo más que una persona.
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Aprietas los dientes. Miras al techo. Te dices a ti misma que si te ven llorando, sufrirán, y solo ...
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Creo que en este mundo tienes que elegir cómo cuentas las historias tristes.
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El amor verdadero nace de los tiempos difíciles
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Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The ...
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There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We ne...
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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his hea...
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AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.
'So that's Sara,' I said.
'Yes.'
'She seems nice.
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The pigs can't stop the fox; I'm too quick,' Takumi said to himself. "I can rhyme while I run; I'm t...
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I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don’t t...
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Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
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We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.
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You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.
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I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she w...
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Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasi...
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We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metap...
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It’s total bullshit,” he said. “The whole thing. Eighty
percent survival rate and he’s ...
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It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I ...
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Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is spread out against the sky

Like...
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I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,'...
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And all at once I knew how Margo Roth Spiegelman felt when she wasn't being Margo Roth Spiegelman: s...
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Maybe all the strings inside him broke.
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Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her homet...
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Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams.
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Okay,” he said. “I gotta go to sleep. It’s almost one.”  “Okay,” I said.  “Okay,�...
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Lady and gentleman, when my parents left Korea with nothing but the clothes on their backs and the c...
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Actually, the problem is that I can't lose my mind," I said. "It's inescapable.
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Real gangster-ass Nerdfighters don’t run from nothing… ‘cause real gangster-ass Nerdfighters c...
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Sometimes the Universe wants to be noticed.
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If I go out there now, I'll freeze my balls off. Not that I'm putting them to any good use whatsoeve...
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Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's something you just are.
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When you date someone, you have the markers along the way, right: You kiss, you have The Talk, you s...
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I try to live life so that I can live with myself.
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There's higher voter turnout among Hispanic evangelicals than among Hispanics in general.
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And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not n...
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I can’t talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I know...
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I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased...
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Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
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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 ...
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The end occurred mostly in her whispers and his silence - because he couldn't whisper and they didn'...
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She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've alre...
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Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic ...
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I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all the small pieces of paper and someone's...
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Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
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You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-...
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Nothing's wrong. Everything's right. Things couldn't be righter. Things could be less tired. They co...
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Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are. ...
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I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to pre...
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I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be...
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Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or what...
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I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social s...
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I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual app...
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Babies are made through an act that you will eventually find intriguing but for right now will just ...
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We are not as frail as the strings would make us believe.
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Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.
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This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Plea...
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As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission...
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A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window.
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There's not even real *popularity* at my school."
"That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentenc...
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All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It´s very clever.
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I just think if you don't say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true...
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So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Poli...
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I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
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Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I al...
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The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that r...
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I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and ma...
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We have a bad habit of seeing books as sort of cheaply made movies where the words do nothing but cr...
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Sawyer lost despite being the stronger candidate in terms of experience.
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Thoughts are only thoughts. They are not you. You do belong to yourself, even when your thoughts don...
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Not to sound like a jerk, but Jane isn't really my type. Her hair's kinda disastrously curly and she...
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I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.
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True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.
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I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of h...
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People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chao...
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- تدركين أن محاولتك لإبقاء على مسافه بينك و بيني لن تقلل...
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never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in...
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literally
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Oblivion is inevitable
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We’ll now hear a few words from Augustus’s special friend, Hazel.” Special friend? There were ...
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Hay infinitos más grandes que otros infinitos.
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Maybe okay will be our always.” “Okay,
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but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.
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I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with so...
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Isaac was still clinging to the lectern. He started to cry. He pressed his forehead down to the podi...
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Dad had a sign of his own. MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, it read, and then underneath that (AND GUS).
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So I wasn't lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths.
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Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says,...
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And so much depends, I told Augustus, upon a blue sky cut open by the branches of the trees above. S...
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Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
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Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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I love you present tense,” I whispered, and then put my hand on the middle of his chest and said, ...
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I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too b...
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The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.
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My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great sat-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love s...
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I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an i...
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Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?
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That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates y...
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People always get used to beauty, though. I haven’t gotten used to you just yet
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,' he said.
'And even a...
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Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes.
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Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequea...
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it is the nature of stars to cross
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Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St...
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It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy.
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He shook his head, just looking at me.
"What?" I asked.
"Nothing," he said.
"Why are ...
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its a metephor, see: you put the killing thing right between your teeth but you dont give it the pow...
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You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean.
"I'll look it up."
No. With Me. At my house. No...
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I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are conne...
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Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of readin...
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The venn diagram of boys who don't like smart girls and boys you don't want to date is a circle.
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Thomas Edison’s last words were ‘It’s very beautiful over there’. I don’t know where there...
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That's the thing about pain... it demands to be felt.
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Vai chegar um dia em que todos vamos estar mortos. Todos nós. Vai chegar um dia em que não vai sob...
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I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool
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It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.
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When we vote, when we talk to our friends about what matters to us, when we choose whose lives we pa...
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Why do writers use symbolism?” Okay, so let’s say you have a headache and you wanna tell someone...
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You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different..
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She’s adorable .” “How would you know?” “I’m gay, not blind. Her hair’s all poofy and ...
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I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
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She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's ju...
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Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegia...
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If only I were as good at life as I am at the internet.
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And then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding ...
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YOU WILL GO TO THE PAPER TOWNS
AND YOU WILL NEVER COME BACK
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For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my...
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I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you bac...
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Strahlend wie ein Kind unter dem Weihnachtsbaum sagte sie: "Ihr raucht zum Spaß, ich rauche, um zu ...
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And I was left to ask, Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I assist your wi...
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How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked.
“Well, I usually can’t, but neither...
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So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her...
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Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale,” I said.
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Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska?
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I've gotten thrown out of thirty-seven straight games,' he said. 'Once or twice, I've had to go real...
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You can fight with me," I said. I put my controller down and leaned back on our foam couch and was a...
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I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold o...
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That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear l...
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You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness." He spoke every...
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There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Th...
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I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takum...
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But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I b...
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Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.
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How can you seperate those things though? The people are the place is the people.
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Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The ...
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I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words so they wouldn't soun...
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She didn't leave me enough to discover her, but she left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.
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And then I was asleep. That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep, that sleep that is not part...
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The way young people speak about one another's bodies says a great deal about our society. In today'...
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Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to ...
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The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, a...
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I walked to Montevallo.'
'Forty miles?!'
'Forty-two,' he corrected me. 'Well. Forty-two th...
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The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room becaus...
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We are greater than the sum of our parts.
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It’s very beautiful over there.” I don’t know where there is, but I believe it’s somewhere, ...
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Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what ...
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Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, think...
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Големите не осъзнават колко са прави, когато казват с о...
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Que je croie; que tu croies; qu'il ou qu'elle croie. What a funny thing to say over and over again: ...
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Потом я узнала, что мое имя означает. Оно происходит от ...
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Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. Bolívar was talking about ...
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Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five laye...
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He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless ab...
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You never know. It's just. It's like. POOF. And you're gone.
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Suffering is universal. It's the only thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about...
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Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to d...
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That's why I love road trips, dude. It's like doing something without actually doing anything." - Ha...
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What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd,...
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– Es gracioso lo que la gente está dispuesta a hacer para que la recuerden.
– Bueno, o par...
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Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could sta...
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The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend ob...
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No, I don’t think you’re gonna be single forever, and also I don’t understand your obsession w...
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—¿Qué más? Ella es tan hermosa. No te cansas de verla. Nunca te preocupas si es más inteligent...
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From the front Rdar announces, "Don't you go talking bad about GoFast bars. Do you want me to stop t...
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