"The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in Love') with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep -- not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds."

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Source : "Young Love, Complicated by Cancer" by A.O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. June 05, 2014.

A. O. Scott

#Running Quotes #Book Quotes #Tears Quotes

“I don't see myself playing or adjusting my schedule for senior tournament golf.”
“Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. And to my surprise, His abundance is mine in the process - not as a prize at the end.”

Source : Carol Kent (1990). “Secret passions of the Christian woman”, NavPress Publishing Group
“My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.”
“I'm not much but I'm all I have.”

Source : Philip K. Dick (2012). “Martian Time-Slip”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Defeat may be victory in disguise.”

Source : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria
“When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.”
“Ps 119:89-91: The settled Word in Heaven makes for a solid foundation on earth and a safe path for today.”
“Maybe miracles are given not to prove anything, but simply to remind us that the physical world is not so solid and real and dependable as we think.”

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