“Paper Towns”
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9. “That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
8. “Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are. People are different when you can smell them and see them up close.”
7. “What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
“The Fault In Our Stars”
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6. “It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.”
5. “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
4. “I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. 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.”
“Will Grayson, Will Grayson”
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3. “I get it now. I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.”
2. “I do not say goodbye. I believe that’s one of the bullsh*tiest words ever invented. It’s not like you’re given the choice to say bad-bye, or awful-bye, or couldn’t-care-less-about-you-bye. Everytime you leave, it’s supposed to be a good one.”
1. “Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.”
How many books by John Green have you read? What are your favorite quotes from him?
