I dislike the phrase โInternet friends,โ because it implies that people you know online arenโt really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
John GreenAnd I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.
John GreenThe Venn Diagram of boys who donโt like smart girls and boys you donโt wanna date is a circle.
John GreenThatโs part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence
John GreenSo I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided - maybe there's like a secret cabal of boys who meet in the locker room and decide who's ugly and who's hot, because as far as I can remember, there was no such thing as a hot fourth-grader. - Lindsey Lee Wells
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