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“We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: john-green, love, turtles-all-the-way-down

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“The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
― J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew

tags: life, love, people, universe

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#3

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

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#4

“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: aza-holmes, john-green, life, page-257, stories, turtles-all-the-way-down

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#5

“no one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again. aa”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#6

“True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: john-green, turtles-all-the-way-down

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#7

“The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and you turn out to be terrible company.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#8

“The problem with happy endings is that they're either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some things get better and some things get worse. And then eventually you die.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#9

“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: life, mental-illness, philosophy

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#10

“You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person and why.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: first-love, love

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#11

“Actually, the problem is that I can’t lose my mind,” I said. “It’s inescapable.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: losing-my-mind, madness, sanity

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#12

“I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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#13

“You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.”
― Rumi

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#14

“As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
― Pablo Neruda

tags: beauty, inner-beauty, love, passion

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#15

“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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#16

“Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

tags: self-destruction, want, wanting

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#17

“When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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#18

“Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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#19

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: diplomacy, strategy, victory, war

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#20

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
― Bhagavad Gita

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#21

“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."

(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”
― Madeleine Albright

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#22

“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

tags: death-and-dying, inspirational, philosophy, poetry

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#23

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
― Isaac Asimov

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#24

“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”
― Banksy

tags: death-and-dying, oblivion

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#25

“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”
― Juliette Lewis

tags: bravery, courage, death-and-dying, death-wish, despair, hopelessness, mental-disorder, mental-health, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, suicidal-thoughts, suicidality, suicide

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#26

“Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.”
― Christopher Pike, The Last Vampire

tags: death-and-dying

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#27

“[HAMILTON]
I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

tags: alexander-hamilton, death, death-and-dying, memory, musicals

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#28

“Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.”
― Benjamin Franklin (attributed, not found in any major work, fake)

tags: death-and-dying

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#29

“And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.”
― Jack London

tags: death-and-dying, realization, suicide

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#30

“What's past is prologue.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

tags: past

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