John Green Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?

  John Green

  Memories, I Hate You, People

  John Green (2012). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.141, Penguin UK

• Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memories—would anyone, anyone, love me?

  John Green

  Life, Memories, People

• The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.

  John Green

  Memories, Real, Taken

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.262, Penguin

• The town was paper, but the memories were not.

  John Green

  Memories, Hipster, Towns

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.156, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my sentimentality. For me at least, fiction is the only way I can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

  John Green

  Memories, Lying, Writing

• One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

  John Green

  Truth, Memories, Children

• 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

• My head was level with hers as we stared at each other from opposite sides of the glass. I don't remember how it ended - if I went to bed or she did. In my memory, it doesn't end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever.

  John Green

  Memories, Glasses, Opposites

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.8, A&C Black

• In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life, that it is possible to live with depression without being consumed by it, and that meaning in life is found together, in family and friendship that transcends and survives all manner of suffering. As the poet wrote in the Bible's Song of Solomon, 'Love is strong as death.' Or perhaps even stronger.

  John Green

  Love, Song, Strong

• The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.

  John Green

  Memories, Eye, Terrible

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.113, Penguin

• What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world that so often denies the reality of death and the reality that we are surrounded by and outnumbered by the dead. Here, is a very playful way of acknowledging that and acknowledging that and that always, whenever we play, whenever we live, we are living in both literal and metaphorical ways on the memory and bones of the dead.

  John Green

  Memories, Reality, Play

• You'll live forever in our hearts, big man. That particularly galled me, because it implied the immortality of those left behind: You will live forever in my memory, because I will live forever! I AM YOUR GOD NOW, DEAD BOY! I OWN YOU!

  John Green

  Memories, Real, Heart

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.171, Penguin UK

• memories fall apart too.

  John Green

  Memories, Fall, Falling Apart

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

• I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory - recalled only on the anniversary of her death, or maybe a couple of weeks after, remembering only after having forgotten.

  John Green

  Couple, Memories, Thinking

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.129, Penguin

• I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?

  John Green

  Memories, Alaska, Space

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.127, Penguin

• The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. - Van Houten

  John Green

  Memories, Eye, Heaven

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.113, Penguin

• I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.

  John Green

  Memories, Might, Keepsakes

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.116, Penguin

• And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I’d done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me.

  John Green

  Memories, Bad Day, Compassion

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.156, Bloomsbury Publishing

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