John Green

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John Green is a bestselling author known for his poignant explorations of love and loss in novels like 'The Fault in Our Stars.'

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August 24, 1977
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"There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what."

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"Life works best when we think of people as people."

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"...whatever you're worried about, you're bigger than the worries."

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"How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?"

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"Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul."

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"Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause"

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"Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence"

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"Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of."

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"When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out."

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"And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking."

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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 power to do its killing."

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"You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean. "I'll look it up." No. With Me. At my house. Now"

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"She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes."

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"Do you have a Wish?' he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the business of granting sick kids one wish. 'No' I said. 'I used my Wish pre-Miracle.' 'What'd you do?' I sighed loudly. 'I was thirteen,' I said. 'Not Disney,' he said. I said nothing. 'You did not go to Disney World.' I said nothing. 'HAZEL GRACE!' he shouted. 'You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.' 'Also Epcot Center,' I mumbled. 'Oh, my God,' Augustus said. 'I can't believe I had a crush on a girl with such cliché wishes."

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"If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!"

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"True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have."

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"You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can't remember, because I never knew."

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