John Green Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• But mothers lie. It's in the job description.

  John Green

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.14, Penguin

• Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom will still be her mom, just as my grandmother is still my grandmother even though she has died. As long as either person is still alive, that relationship survives. (It changes, but it survives.)

  John Green

  Mom, Mother, Real

• Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.

  John Green

  Mother, Book, Winter

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.169, Penguin

• The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for the wrong crowd, they both seemed awfully smart.

  John Green

  Mother, Smart, Worry

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.21, Penguin

• He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless abandon. Chip did not believe in having a sock drawer or a T-shirt drawer. He believed that all drawers were created equal and filled each with whatever fit. My mother would have died.

  John Green

  Mother, Believe, Clothes

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.17, Penguin

• Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?

  John Green

  Mom, Mother, Lying

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