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You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.

— John Green Paper Towns (2008)

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He'd never been all that good at math, but he was a goddamned world-famous expert in getting dumped.

An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

Paper Towns (2008)

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment—because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.

An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

"Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape—the world or the end of it?"

Looking for Alaska (2005)

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