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§ And
when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when
you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do
that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it
mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself, But that
doesn’t mean that it won’t end, it won’t get better. Because it will. –John Green
§ I
don’t know any perfect people, only really, really flawed people who are still
worth loving. –John Green
§ I
fall in love the way you fall asleep – slowly and then all at once. –John Green
§ I
go to seek a great perhaps. –John Green
§ It
always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person I n the world
who thought and felt such strange and awful things. –John Green
§ Just
remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they
actually are. –John Green
§ Maybe
our favorite quotations say more about us than the stories and people we’re
quoting. –John Green
§ Maybe
there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or
somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it
matters. –John Green
§ My
thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations. –John Green
§ “Oh,
I’m grand.” Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. “I’m on a roller
coaster that only goes up, my friend.” –John Green
§ Some
infinites are bigger than other infinites. –John Green
§ Sometimes,
you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you
become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together
unless and until all living humans read the book. –John Green
§ That’s
the thing about pain. It demands to be felt. –John Green
§ The
town was paper but the memories were not. –John Greene
§ Thomas
Edison’s last words were ‘It’s
very beautiful over there’. I don’t know where there is, but I believe it’s
somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful. –John Green
§ True
love will triumph in the end, which may or may not be true, but if it’s a lie,
it’s the most beautiful lie we have. –John Green
§ What
a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person. –John Green
§ When
you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful
about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you’re
living a less performed life. –John Green
§ You
are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments
that you cannot even imagine yet. –John Green
§ You
are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone. –John
Green
