"Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I kn...

The longer I do my job the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.
~ John Green (author) ~












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"Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory.
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"You'll... you'll... live your best life today.
"I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, "This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.
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"...everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
"I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.
"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.