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#1

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

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#2

“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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#3

“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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#4

“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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#5

“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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#6

“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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#7

“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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#8

“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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#9

“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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#10

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

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#11

“When you're on a Ferris wheel all anyone ever talks about is being on the Ferris wheel and the view from the Ferris wheel and whether the Ferris wheel is scary and how many more times it will go around. Dating is like that. Nobody who's doing it ever talks about anything else. I have no interest in dating.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: dating, ferris-wheel, humor

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#12

“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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#13

“I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: mental-health

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#14

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

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#15

“And I kept thinking about how sky is a singular noun, as if it's one thing. But the sky isn't one thing. The sky is everything. And last night, it was enough.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: contentment, sky

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#16

“Being vulnerable is asking to get used.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#17

“I guess at some point, you realize that whoever takes care of you is just a person, and that they have no superpowers and can't actually protect you from getting hurt.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#18

“I couldn't make myself happy, but I could make people around me miserable.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#19

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

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#20

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower

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#21

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: change, life

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#22

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: infinity

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#23

“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower

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#24

“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: honesty

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#25

“The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and you turn out to be terrible company.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#26

“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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#27

“Every loss is unprecedented. You can’t ever know someone else’s hurt, not really—just like touching someone else's body isn’t the same as having someone else’s body.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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

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#28

“It’s so weird, to know you’re crazy and not be able to do anything about it, you know? It’s not like you believe yourself to be normal. You know there is a problem. But you can’t figure a way through to fixing it. Because you can’t be sure, you know?”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: mental-illness

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#29

“Nobody gets anybody else, not really. We're all stuck inside ourselves.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: aza-holmes, john-green, page-244, turtles-all-the-way-down

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#30

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

tags: identity, life

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