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>“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.”

why is he such a hack?

>> No.6887563

tbh if you have ever dated an overly romantic teenage boy those are the kind of things they say.

>> No.6887570

>>6887563
I bet john green has dated a lot of overly romantic teenage boys

>> No.6887596

>>6887547
>What surprises most people is when I tell them it’s not the sex-with-other-men that bothers me. The sex is the easy part, the fun part. It’s what the sex connects to, stands for, reveals that can be difficult. I don’t want her to fall in love with anyone else, and every time she goes on a date, I confront the possibility that she might. It happened at the beginning: The first person she dated after we opened up fell hard in love with her, and my wife, overwhelmed by his ardor, tried to love him back. Watching it happen, I was confused, angry, and terrified that she wanted to leave me. She assured me she didn’t, and whatever feelings she had for him didn’t lessen what she felt for me. Believing her then was the ultimate trust exercise. We survived because eventually I did believe her, and also because I learned to trust myself.

>> No.6887622

>>6887596
Where does the john green is a cuck meme come from?

>> No.6887633

>>6887547
it sounds trite and shitty, but that's because this anon is right.
>>6887563
but this anon also apparently doesn't recognize it's just a childish version of ecclesiastes, mentioning dust, labor, and love

>> No.6887637

>>6887596
>Taking what women say about their emotions at face value and believing it
John pls

>>6887622
He lets his wife sleep around.

>> No.6887664

>>6887637
>He lets his wife sleep around.
citation needed

>> No.6887667

A simple animal impulse, which for a short time overrides one's self-control, elevated to the status of some sort of divne virtue. This is the greatest failing of the humanities.

>> No.6887678

>>6887547

He only listens to The Mountain Goats

>> No.6887681

>>6887622
He's a cuck on the behalf of the entire white race, painting them as the devils of history and downplaying all their achievements.

>> No.6887686
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>>6887667
I'm glad such earthly emotions are beneath you.