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John Green

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“I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“You can't just make me different and then leave” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“I just did some calculations, and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“Suffering . . . Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened like I imagined them.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“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
“And then something invisible snapped inside her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“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
“If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“They love their hair because they aren't smart enough to love something more interesting.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“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
“But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“Francois Rabelais. He was this 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
“The Buddha knew one thing science didn't prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“I may die young . . . But at least I'll die smart.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. 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
“people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: you've already got a mom.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“That's the light that makes everything better, everything prettier, and today, everything just seemed to be in that light.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“After all this time, it still seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out — but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn't the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.” John Green, Looking for Alaska

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