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We were up to our eyeballs in competition, ... They actually improved over the last time they ran and I was really pleased with that. The kids competed a lot better. They got out and got after it. Had they been a hundred percent physically we would have seen a much better result.


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JOHN GREEN Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...
JOHN GREEN I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.
JOHN GREEN While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action...
JOHN GREEN the world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world
JOHN GREEN Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds ou...
JOHN GREEN I fell in love like you would fall asleep: slowly and then all at once.
JOHN GREEN I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with August...
JOHN GREEN Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted...
JOHN GREEN Gus: "It tastes like..."
Me: "Food."
Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellentl...
JOHN GREEN But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassiu...
JOHN GREEN I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does ...
JOHN GREEN I love you present tense.
JOHN GREEN She loved mysteries so much, that she became one.
JOHN GREEN It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them...
JOHN GREEN There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the ...
JOHN GREEN As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean:
"Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner conce...
JOHN GREEN And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in...
JOHN GREEN All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute th...
JOHN GREEN There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was ...
JOHN GREEN I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.
JOHN GREEN And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure ...
JOHN GREEN Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an...
JOHN GREEN That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjecti...
JOHN GREEN I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is ine...
JOHN GREEN