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February 02, 2013
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"That was perfect, I thought: you listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you’re trying to listen to."

— from Paper Towns by John Green

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October 09, 2012
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"For me, the hero’s journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero’s journey is the voyage from strength to weakness."

— John Green

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August 26, 2012
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"You can’t just make me different and then leave. You can’t. You can’t change me and make my whole life centered around you, then leave."

— from Looking for Alaska by John Green

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August 22, 2012
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"We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are we going to live in a universe where important questions will always go unanswered?"

— John Green

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August 21, 2012
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"You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them."

— from An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

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August 21, 2012
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"Whether you’re studying electrical engineering or poetry, college is not about maximizing income, it’s about becoming a better and more informed observer of the universe. And for me, at least, that what’s leads to a more fulfilling life."

— John Green, on the “point” of college

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August 06, 2012

beautifully-broken1 asked: Hey, looooove the blog, you really are super! One thing I think you could do to your blog is at the bio thing or somewhere, write 'may contain spoilers'. Just a suggestion, you don't need to do it or anything, I'll still be following :D Thank you for this blog, Stay excellent and DFTBA! <3

Hey, well thank you so much! As I’ve said before, though, it is you awesome followers who make this blog so excellent. So, thank YOU. Your suggestion will be taken, of course, because it is a fantastic one. 

DFTBA as well!

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July 31, 2012
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"When it works, anticipation is far more fulfilling than surprise, because we are reminded that a sunrise is precisely as magnificent as it is inevitable."

— John Green

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July 28, 2012
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"The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before."

— from The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

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July 26, 2012
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