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“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

“It's turtles all the way fucking down, Holmesy. You're trying to find the turtle at the bottom of the pile, but that's not how it works.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Life is a series of choices between wonders.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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

“Maybe you are what you can't not be.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Photographs are just light and time,”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Every loss is unprecedented.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“I get that nothing lasts. But why do I have to miss everybody so much?”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“I don’t like to throw the L-word
around; it’s too good and rare a feeling to cheapen with overuse.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“You'd think solving mysteries would bring you closure, that closing the loop would comfort and quiet your mind. But it never does. The truth always disappoints.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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

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

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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

“there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Best friends are important. They're the closest thing to a sister you'll ever have.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“for belly, conrad is the sun. and when the sun comes out, the stars disappear.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“I will never look at you in the same way ever again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can’t stop
yourself from dreaming.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“The future is unclear. But it’s still mine.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“I whispered “I’m not,” even though I was. Not scared of him, but scared of everything I felt. Sometimes it was too much. What I felt for him was bigger than the world, than anything.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“He didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity

-Belly Conklin-”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer