John Green Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was boring and she was endlessly fascinating. 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.

  John Green

  Love, Dream, Lying

  "Looking for Alaska". Book by John Green, 2005.

• ...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

  John Green

  Dream, Ambition, Done

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.305, Penguin

• Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams.

  John Green

  Dream, People, Boring

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.61, Bloomsbury Publishing

• There are many more jobs out there than you have ever heard of. Your dream job might not yet exist. If you had told 'College Me' that I would become a professional YouTuber, I would've been like, "That is not a word, and it never should be."

  John Green

  Inspirational, Graduation, Dream

• Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again.

  John Green

  Notebook, Dream, Memories

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, Penguin

• Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children.

  John Green

  Dream, Children, Long

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing

• He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace.

  John Green

  Dream, Grace, Murder

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.125, Penguin

• In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie dream girl or an Edward Cullen or anything other than a full, complex human being. That said, while I've tried to reflect that in my books, I don't think I've always succeeded, because I am always running up against my own insufficiencies and biases etc.

  John Green

  Girl, Running, Dream

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