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“We are both astonishments, the closest thing in the known universe to a miracle”

Universe Miracle Astonishment John Green Turtles All The Way Down

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“There's an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem that's been rumbling around inside me ever since I first read it, and part of it goes: 'Blown from the dark hill hither to my door/ Three flakes, then four/ Arrive, then many more.' You can count the first three flakes, and the fourth. Then language fails, and you have to settle in and try to survive the blizzard”

Poem Snow John Green Blizzard Turtles All The Way Down Edna St Vincent Millay Snow Flake

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“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”

Life Stories John Green Turtles All The Way Down Aza Holmes Page 257

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“To be alive is to be missing.”

Life Missing John Green Turtles All The Way Down Aza Holmes Page 281

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“You are my favorite person. I want to be buried next to you. we'll have a shared tombstone. It'll read, 'Holmesy and Daisy: They did everything together, except the nasty.”

John Green Daisy Turtles All The Way Down Page 238

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“It spans the whole alphabet, because we wanted you to now you can be anything.”

John Green Turtles All The Way Down Page 33 Chapter Four

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“Nobody gets anybody else, not really. We're all stuck inside ourselves.”

John Green Turtles All The Way Down Aza Holmes Page 244

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“My children are grown-ups., so you and Noah are my only little boys I have left.”

John Green Rosa Turtles All The Way Down Aza Holmes Davis Pickett

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“We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”

Love John Green Turtles All The Way Down

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“It sucked having a dead person in your family, and I knew what he meant, about seeking solace in the old light. Three years from now, I knew, he'd find a different favorite star, one with older light to gaze upon. And when time caught up with that one, he'd love a farther star, and a farther one, because you can't let the light catch up with the present. Otherwise you'd forget.”

John Green Turtles All The Way Down Aza Holmes Page 206

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“Photographs are just light and time,”

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“But for some people, the invasive can kind of take over, crowding out all the other thoughts until it's the only one you're able to have, the thought you're perpetually either thinking or distracting yourself from.”

John Green Turtles All The Way Down Page 45 Invasive Thoughts

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“Seeing your past - or a person from your - can for me at least be physically painful. I'm overwhelmed by a melancholic ache - and I want the past back, not matter the cost. It doesn't matter that it won't come back; that it never even actually existed as I remember it - I want it back. I want things to be like they were, or like I remember them having been: Whole. But she doesn't remind me of the past, for some reason, she feels present tense”

John Green Turtles All The Way Down Davis Pickett Page 187 188

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“That's what my dad is like-he really disappeared a long time ago, which is maybe why it didn't bother me much. I wish he were here, but I've wished that for a long time. Adults think they're wielding power, but really power is wielding them.”

Power John Green Turtles All The Way Down Davis Pickett Page 145

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“Yeah, well, she's known me since I was a baby. And she cares about us. But she also gets paid to care about us, you know? And if she didn't... I mean, she'd have to find a different job.”

John Green Turtles All The Way Down Davis Pickett

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“Yes, well, in that respect and many others, American high schools do rather resemble prisons.”

John Green Turtles All The Way Down Page 11 Aza Holmes Chapter Two

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“Every loss is unprecedented. You can’t ever know someone else’s hurt, not really—just like touching someone else's body isn’t the same as having someone else’s body.”

Pain Hurt John Green Turtles All The Way Down

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