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 in Turtles All the Way Down

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About John Green

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John Michael Green (born August 24, 1977) is an American author and YouTuber. His books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide, including The Fault in Our Stars (2012), which is one of the best-selling books of all time. Green's rapid rise to fame and idiosyncratic voice are...

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That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.

Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

—John Green in Paper Towns

That's why people grow weary of listening to Dumpees obsess over their troubles: getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afterward, you're devastated and they're relieved; it's over for them and just starting for you.

—John Green in An Abundance of Katherines

I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

—John Green in An Abundance of Katherines

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…you are meant to grow into a true human being. Right now you are to a human being what an acorn is to an oak tree. A good start, that's all. You've got a long way to go, baby, and you're not going to grow into your full potential sitting in front of the laptop, bag of Cool Ranch Doritos in one hand, dick in the other, anime porn boring a hole in your corneas and consciousness. Just a thought.

—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk

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For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.

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Failure is when you talk yourself out of becoming something amazing.

—Rudy Francisco

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

—William James

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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

—Thomas Carlyle

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