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“Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.”
― John Green

“We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.”
― John Green

“What matters to you defines your mattering.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“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”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held out hope that the suffering could be transcended. Jesus brought the message that even the last shall be first, that even the tax collectors and lepers - the outcasts - had cause for hope. And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“If you don't say the honest thing, it never becomes true.”
― John Green

“People are locked up in all sorts of ways.”
― Emma Donoghue

“People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Everybody's damaged by something.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“Some people have more guts than brains.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

“Sanity is a cozy lie.”
― Susan Sontag

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”
― Ted Grant

“Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”
― Joanne Harris, Chocolat

“I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.”
― Joanne Harris, Five Quarters of the Orange

“There's the life we dream, the life we deserve, and the life we get. I'll take what I got over what I deserve any day.”
― Kate Jacobs

“If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.”
― Joanne Harris, The Girl with No Shadow

“We don't always get what we deserve," she replied, patting James over his heart. "Sometimes we get more; sometimes we get less. At least we get something.”
― Kate Jacobs, The Friday Night Knitting Club

“... everyone has to knit when they're here. ... But not every person has to use yarn.”
― Kate Jacobs

“...An honest conversation with anyone is a form of praying.”
― kate jacobs

“I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.”
― Nigella Lawson