it occured to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.
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| — | John Green (via apanacea) |
That’s the thing about pain,” Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. “It demands to be felt.
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| — | ‘The Fault in Our Stars’, John Green (via flutter) |
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.
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| — | An abundance of Katherines- John green (via ionlygotforeverandforeverisfine) |
Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then or that I did. Because memories fall apart, too. And then you’re left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else’s, dying again.
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| — | Looking for Alaska (via onlybeloved) |
The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t end, that it won’t get better. Because it will.
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| — | John Green (via wailun-deardaydream) |
I found myself wishing there was some way for those of us on one side of an ocean to tell people on the other side that we were thinking of them. But images can travel in a way that our thoughts cannot. And that night, I felt sad and frustrated that technology can never quite bridge the oceans between us.
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| — | John Green (via citiesandoceans) |
