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  • #1
    John Green
    “What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #2
    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #3
    John Green
    “You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
    John Green

  • #4
    John Green
    “Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #5
    John Green
    “I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #6
    John Green
    “They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #7
    John Green
    “You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #8
    John Green
    “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #9
    John Green
    “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, Looking for Alaska

  • #10
    John Green
    “I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #11
    John Green
    “Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.”
    John Green

  • #12
    John Green
    “I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.”
    John Green

  • #13
    John Green
    “I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #14
    John Green
    “Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You can see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean, look at it, Q: look at all those culs-de-sac, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #15
    John Green
    “She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #16
    John Green
    “And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #17
    John Green
    “Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #18
    John Green
    “Dude, I don’t want to talk about Lacey’s prom shoes. And I’ll tell you why: I have this thing that makes me really uninterested in prom shoes. It’s called a penis.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #19
    John Green
    “That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #20
    John Green
    “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.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #21
    J.D. Salinger
    “And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #22
    J.D. Salinger
    “Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #23
    J.D. Salinger
    “If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #24
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #25
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #26
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #27
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #28
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #29
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #30
    John Green
    “Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.”
    John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson



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