It's easy to like someone from a...

It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing attainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness who's kinda bossy, then I had to basically start liking a whole different person.

- John Green

Paper Towns

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I think the future deserves our faith. But it is hard to argue with Emily Dickinson.

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The marks we leave are too often scars.

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I just want to domething that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

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For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

- John Green

But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended.

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I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing. I flipped to the back and found the highlighted quote ("NEVER USE A HIGHLIGHTER IN MY BOOKS,

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