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#1

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: change, grief, loss, revelation

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#2

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#3

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: humans, pain, scars

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#4

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: augustus-waters, hazel, heartbreak, privilege

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#5

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#6

“Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#7

“I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#8

“You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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#9

“But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: tfios, the-fault-in-our-stars

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#10

“Your now is not your forever.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#11

“no one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again. aa”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#12

“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: life, mental-illness, philosophy

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#13

“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: aza-holmes, john-green, life, page-257, stories, turtles-all-the-way-down

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#14

“True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: john-green, turtles-all-the-way-down

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#15

“The problem with happy endings is that they're either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some things get better and some things get worse. And then eventually you die.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#16

“I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#17

“What I love about science is that as you learn, you don't really get answers. You just get better questions.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#18

“You are as real as anyone, and your doubts make you more real, not less.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#19

“To be alive is to be missing.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: aza-holmes, john-green, life, missing, page-281, turtles-all-the-way-down

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#20

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: brain, brains, hope, inner-thoughts, mental-health, mental-illness, thoughts

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#21

“No, it's not, Holmesy. You pick your endings, and your beginnings. You get to pick the frame, you know? Maybe you don't choose what's in the picture, but you decide the frame.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#22

“I is the hardest word to define.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: john-green, turtles-all-the-way-down

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#23

“Spirals grow infinitely small the farther you follow them inward, but they also grow infinitely large the farther you follow them out.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#24

“If only I were as good at life as I am at the internet.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#25

“Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: expectations, mental-illness

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#26

“Whether it hurts is kind of irrelevant.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#27

“I wanted to tell her that I was getting better, because that was supposed to be the narrative of illness: It was a hurdle you jumped over, or a battle you won. Illness is a story told in the past tense.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: illness

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#28

“Break hearts, not promises.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: john-green, turtles-all-the-way-down

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#29

“Sometimes I wondered why she liked me, or at least tolerated me. Why any of them did. Even I found myself annoying.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#30

“We are both astonishments, the closest thing in the known universe to a miracle”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: astonishment, john-green, miracle, turtles-all-the-way-down, universe

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