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We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.
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Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.
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“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
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Pendidikan
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
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Kehidupan
“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
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Kehidupan
“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
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Kehidupan
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
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Kehidupan
“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
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Cinta
“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.”
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“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
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Kehidupan
“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.”
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Cinta
“You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
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Keluarga
“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
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Kehidupan
“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
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Harapan
“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
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Waktu
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
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Kehidupan
“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
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Doa
“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
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Pendidikan
“Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
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Kebahagiaan
“What the hell is that?" I laughed."It's my fox hat.""Your fox hat?""Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat.""Why are you wearing your fox hat?" I asked."Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.”
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