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I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

John Green
Love, Inspirational, Life
Amy Mek‏ @AmyMek, twitter.com. June 4, 2015.

You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.

John Green
Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness
John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.207, Penguin

I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

John Green
Love, Dream, Lying
"Looking for Alaska". Book by John Green, 2005.

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

John Green
Love, Romantic, Stars
John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.75, Penguin

Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

John Green
Love, Real, Keeping Promises
John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.42, Penguin

I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

John Green
Love, Fighting, Long
John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.215, Penguin

I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.

John Green
Love, Romantic, Eye

The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one.

John Green
Love, Heartbreak, Hands

In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life, that it is possible to live with depression without being consumed by it, and that meaning in life is found together, in family and friendship that transcends and survives all manner of suffering. As the poet wrote in the Bible's Song of Solomon, 'Love is strong as death.' Or perhaps even stronger.

John Green
Love, Song, Strong

Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.

John Green
Love, Real, Water

True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.

John Green
Love, Romantic, Beautiful

I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!

John Green
Love, Life, Heart

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