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    Kate DiCamillo
    “The world is dark, and light is precious.
    Come closer, dear reader.
    You must trust me.
    I am telling you a story.”
    ― Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux
    tags: books
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    John Green
    “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.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, power-of-words, reading
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    John Green
    “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: satisfaction, self-determination
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    John Green
    “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: humans, pain, scars
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    John Green
    “Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: augustus-waters, hazel, heartbreak, privilege
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    John Green
    “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: change, grief, loss, revelation
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    John Green
    “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: death-and-dying
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    John Green
    “I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: grenade, john-green, the-fault-in-our-stars
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    John Green
    “The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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    John Green
    “Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: cancer, death, illness
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    John Green
    “You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: death, language, life, writing
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    John Green
    “Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: promises
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    John Green
    “At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: looking-for-alaska
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    John Green
    “It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: john-green, looking-for-alaska
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    John Green
    “What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
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    John Green
    “Have you really read all those books in your room?”

    Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: books, library, reading
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    John Green
    “I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: death, last-words
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    John Green
    “Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: depressing, humor, wise
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “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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    Stephen Chbosky
    “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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    Stephen Chbosky
    “It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: books-reading
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    Stephen Chbosky
    “And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. and that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing 'unity.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
    tags: inspirational
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    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
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