"There is no try. There is only do."
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"Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots."
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"You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot."
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"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."
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"I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel."
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"One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful."
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"If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat."
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"What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper or editors or agents or even writers. We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers."
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"Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else."
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"As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist."
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"One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich."
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"It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else."
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"Your responsibility is not to the people you're making the gift for, but the gift itself."
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"I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now."
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"The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive."
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"Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions."
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"You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore - is that no algorithm will ever understand readers the way that other readers can understand readers."
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"[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use."
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"She loved mysteries so much that she became one."
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"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."
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