John Green Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.

  John Green

  Hurt, Parent, Suffering

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.116, Penguin

• Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.

  John Green

  Thinking, Remember You, Remembers You

• It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.

  John Green

  Hipster, Parent, Black

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.22, A&C Black

• Radar threw his books into his locker and shut it. Then the din of conversation around us quieted just a bit as he turned his eyes toward the heavens and shouted, "IT IS NOT MY FAULT THAT MY PARENTS OWN THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF BLACK SANTAS.

  John Green

  Book, Eye, Parent

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.22, A&C Black

• I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

  John Green

  Family, School, Years

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.225, Penguin

• There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.

  John Green

  Sea, Parent, Wade

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, Penguin

• Do you have a Wish?' he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the business of granting sick kids one wish. 'No' I said. 'I used my Wish pre-Miracle.' 'What'd you do?' I sighed loudly. 'I was thirteen,' I said. 'Not Disney,' he said. I said nothing. 'You did not go to Disney World.' I said nothing. 'HAZEL GRACE!' he shouted. 'You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.' 'Also Epcot Center,' I mumbled. 'Oh, my God,' Augustus said. 'I can't believe I had a crush on a girl with such cliché wishes.

  John Green

  Crush, Girl, Believe

• I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

  John Green

  Encouragement, Bullshit, Funeral

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.273, Penguin

• The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children.

  John Green

  Children, Real, Kissing

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.132, Penguin UK

• I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around.

  John Green

  Hurt, Real, Thinking

• I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to see his parents sink to their knees in the dew-wet grass and moan in pain.

  John Green

  Pain, Dad, Parent

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.274, Penguin

• My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces. It signified that I trusted them, that I was myself in front of them.

  John Green

  Parent, Faces, Pleasure

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.106, A&C Black

• You couldn't be more wrong," I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it." "You're a hard person to comfort," Augustus said. "Easy comfort isn't comforting," I said.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Lying, Parent

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.99, Penguin UK

• I'll just go over to the Duke's," I said. "Her parents already told me I could stay there. I'll go over there and open all my presents, and talk about how my parents neglect me, and then maybe the Duke will give me some of her presents because she feels so bad about how my mom doesn't love me.

  John Green

  Mom, Giving, Parent

• My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.

  John Green

  Parent, Stomach, Immigrant Parents

• This is what happens: somebody—girl usually—got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons. They strain against the string and strain against it, and then something happens, and that string gets cut, and they just float away. And maybe you never see the balloon again . . . Or maybe three or four years from now, or three or four days from now, the prevailing winds take the balloon back home . . . But listen, kid, that string gets cut all the time.

  John Green

  Girl, Kids, Home

• Hazel GRACE!” he shouted. “You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.” “Also Epcot Center,” I mumbled. “Oh, my God,” Augustus said. “I can’t believe I have a crush on a girl with such cliché wishes.

  John Green

  Crush, Girl, Believe

• Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

  John Green

  Parent, Matter, Patient

• I don't think ministering requires a religious context. The number one thing is that every parent is extremely worried about their kid. Of course, when a chaplain shows up, that can exacerbate this worry rather than calm it.

  John Green

  Religious, Kids, Thinking

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

• Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

  John Green

  Father, Character, Interesting

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

• 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.

• The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive.

  John Green

  Children, Love Is, Long

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

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