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    John Green
    “But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    John Green
    “Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: life
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    John Green
    “Interesting capitalization,' I said.
    'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    John Green
    “I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: life
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    John Green
    “Everything's uglier close up," she said.
    "Not you," I answered.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    John Green
    “I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: paper-towns-john-green
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    John Green
    “And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school.
    It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: leaving
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    John Green
    “It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    John Green
    “But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can be is me.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    John Green
    “She never acted as if she liked him all that much, but then she never acted as if she liked anyone all that much.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    John Green
    “And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: chapter-3, john-green, margo-roth-spiegelman, page-33, page-34, paper-towns, part-1
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    John Green
    “Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    John Green
    “Because Margo knows the secret of leaving, the secret I have only just now learned; leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: feels-good, grow-roots, important, leaving, something-matters
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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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    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
    tags: books
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    John Green
    “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
    ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
    tags: books, reading
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    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
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    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    ― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
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    Paul Auster
    “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
    ― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
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    Mortimer J. Adler
    “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
    ― Mortimer J. Adler
    tags: books, reading
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    Neil Gaiman
    “What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
    tags: books, bookstore, towns
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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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. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: books, john-green, reading, the-fault-in-our-stars
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    John Green
    “Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    John Green
    “Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are… People are different when you can smell them and see them up close…”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
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    Jeffrey Fry
    “The sun loves the moon so much that he dies every night to let her breathe, and in return, she reflects his love.”
    ― Jeffrey Fry, Distilled Thoughts
    tags: breathe, dies, every, in-return, love, loves, moon, night, reflects, sun
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “The wise remind themselves that ‘This too shall pass’ even when things are good; the foolish, only when things are bad.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: adversity, bad-times, do-not-give-up, good-times, motivation, never-give-up, perseverance, stoicism, this-too-shall-pass, wisdom
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    Anthon St. Maarten
    “There is light at the end of every tunnel. To get there just follow the silver lining.”
    ― Anthon St. Maarten
    tags: darkest-before-dawn, find-the-light, hope-and-courage, it-gets-better, light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel, silver-lining, spiritual-courage, spiritual-hope, stay-strong, this-too-shall-pass
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    Amit Ray
    “In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow.”
    ― Amit Ray
    tags: beauty, change, change-in-life, change-life, change-of-of-heart, change-your-life, changes, falling-leaves, leaf, leaves, new-leaves, pain, painful
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    Jennifer Niven
    “You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”
    ― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
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