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“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Waiting is one of life’s hardships.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

“The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

“What matters to you defines your mattering.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“A paper town for a paper girl.”
― John Green , Paper Towns

“Entropy increases. Things fall apart.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers.”
― John Green

“Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don’t know who you are or what your name is or where you’re from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter’s real and you’re not.”
― John Green

“All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“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