John Green Quotes About High School

Quotes about: High School

• When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.

  John Green

  Teenage, Stupid, Real

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

• I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.

  John Green

  Time, School, Winter

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.18, A&C Black

• High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

  John Green

  Funny, Senior, Queens

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.489, Penguin

• Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole little life, and then you're going to die, and in the last moments, when you're chocking on your own bile in the nursing home, you'll say to yourself:'Well, I wasted my whole goddamned life, but at least I broke into SeaWorld with Margo Roth Spiegelman my senior year of high school. At least I carpe'd that one diem.

  John Green

  Senior, Baby, Home

• And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.

  John Green

  Jobs, Nice, School

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.33, A&C Black

• One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for example say you're in high school and you're a boy and you say to a girl: "Do you like anyone right now?" - that's not the question you're asking. The question you're asking is, "do you like me right now."

  John Green

  Girl, Real, Book

• I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.

  John Green

  School, Thinking, Parent

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

• High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most.

  John Green

  School, People, Realizing

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