John Green Quotes

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• The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.
• Nothing really ever happens like you imagine it will.
• So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will)…
• Grief doesn't change you. It reveals you.
• Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.
• 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.
• 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…
• 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.…
• 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.
• Like everyone, I'm saddened and horrified by this. All I'll say is that I'm personally trying to pay more attention to the victims than to…
• By far the best cure for hangovers is not drinking excessively the night before.This cure has a 100% success rate, and as you save the…
• Nothing (at least that can be done by humans) immortalizes anyone. The Fault in Our Stars will hopefully have a long and wonderful life, but…
• What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful…
• "Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight.…
• Gus: "It tastes like..." Me: "Food." Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this…
• Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such things is a…
• "And how are you feeling?" asked Patrick."Oh, I'm grand." Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. "I'm on a roller coaster that only…
• You don't want romantic advice from me, you want romantic advice from Edward Cullen. I completely understand but he is completely unavailable right now and…
• But pizza was originally Italian, although, Italian pizza doesn't taste much like this because this pizza is fortified with sodium. Which is a mineral...or a…
• Real gangster-ass Nerdfighters don't run from nothing... 'cause real gangster-ass Nerdfighters can't run fast.

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