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

“You are as real as anyone, and your doubts make you more real, not less.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“It’s a weird phrase in English, in love, like it’s a sea you drown in or a town you live in. You don’t get to be in anything else—in friendship or in anger or in hope. All you can be in is love.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt like we were in some place your body can't visit, some place with no ceiling and no walls and no floor and no instruments”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“If only I were as good at life as I am at the internet.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“You feeling scared?"
"Kinda."
"Of what?"
"It's not like that. The sentence doesn't have, like, an object. I'm just scared.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Of course, you pretend to be the author. You have to. You think, I now choose to go to lunch, when that monotone beep rings from on high at 12:37. But really, the bell decides. You think you’re the painter, but you’re the canvas.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“My whole life I though I was the star of an overly earnest romance movie, and it turns out I was in a goddamned buddy comedy all along.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“The whole problem with boys is that ninety-nine percent of them are, like, okay. If you could dress and hygiene them properly, and make them stand up straight and listen to you and not be dumbasses, they'd be totally acceptable.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“We are both astonishments, the closest thing in the known universe to a miracle”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“There’s no need to suffer. Which I’d argue is just a fundamental misunderstanding of the human predicament, but okay.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“I have the soul of a private jet owner, and the life of a public transportation rider. It's a real tragedy.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“You are my favorite person. I want to be buried next to you. we'll have a shared tombstone. It'll read, 'Holmesy and Daisy: They did everything together, except the nasty.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz