“So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that's not what I actually needed. What I needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered.”

—  John Green

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9sYmz2lHXA

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American author and vlogger 1977

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