John Green Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't.

  John Green

  Past, Feels, Assured

• You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to.

  John Green

  Hipster, Past, Ought

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.23, Penguin

• 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

• I felt tired for the first time, and I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me on my back and she on her side with her arm draped against me, her head on my shoulder, facing me. Not doing anything--just lying there together beneath the sky, the night here so well lit that it drowns out the stars. And maybe I could feel her breathe against my neck, and maybe we could just stay there until morning and then the people would walk past us as they came into the park, and they would see us and think that we were tourists, too, and we could just disappear into them.

  John Green

  Morning, Stars, Real

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.78, A&C Black

• Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.

  John Green

  Sorry, Love You, Past

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.114, Penguin

• So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya's name because it was the first that came to mind, because in that moment she didn't want to get expelled and she couldn't think past that moment. She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again. ~Miles/Pudge on Alaska, pg 120-121

  John Green

  Thinking, Past, Alaska

• The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.

  John Green

  Past, Eight, Light

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.112, Penguin UK

• Night falls fast. Today is the past.

  John Green

  Fall, Past, Night

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.74, Penguin

• I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

  John Green

  Weekend, Past, Ideas

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.49, Penguin

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