John Green Quotes - Page 27

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• You can say a lot of bad things about Tiny Cooper. I know, because I have said them. But for a guy who knows absolutely nothing about how to conduct his own relationships, Tiny Cooper is kind of brilliant when it comes to dealing with other people's heartbreak. Tiny is like some gigantic sponge soaking up the pain of lost love everywhere he goes.

  John Green

  Pain, Lost Love, People

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.81, Penguin

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• I mean, I am pretty fabulous. Am I not?' 'You're a pillar of fabulosity in the community,' I tell him.

  John Green

  Mean, Community, Fabulous

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.118, Penguin

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• Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large.

  John Green

  Believe, Gay, World

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.5, Penguin

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• Dear Jane, Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes. Yours, Will Grayson

  John Green

  Wife, Cheated On, Dear

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.88, Penguin

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• This is the Homosexuality Is An Abomination Club, right?

  John Green

  Clubs, Homosexuality, Abomination

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.29, Penguin

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• We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.

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  Real, World, Weird Things

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• So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.

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  Hipster, Dark, Boxes

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.124, Penguin

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• We can hear others, and we can travel with them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system, like so many leaves of grass. But the game makes me wonder wheter we can really ever fully become another.

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  Crazy, Moving, Games

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.258, A&C Black

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• I have spent my life falling. Not the kind that Tiny's talking about. He's talking about love. I'm talking about life. In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.

  John Green

  Fall, Talking, Feelings

  "Will Grayson, Will Grayson". Book by John Green and David Levithan, April 6, 2010.

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• When you're walking home at night, do you even get creeped out and even though it's silly and embarrassing you just want to run home?" It seemed too secret and personal to admit to virtual stranger, but I told her, "Yeah, totally." For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, "Run run run run run," and took off, pulling me behind her.

  John Green

  Running, Real, Silly

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.29, Penguin

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• Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.

  John Green

  Mean, Guy, Sound

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• I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.

  John Green

  Kids, Thinking, Asian

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.85, Penguin

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• I don't suppose I can wear the flamingo tie," he said as he pulled on black socks. "It's a bit festive, given the occasion," I responded. "Can't wear it to the opera," said the Colonel, almost smiling. "Can't wear it to a funeral. Can't use it to hang myself. It's a bit useless, as ties go." I gave him a tie.

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  Ties, Funeral, Black

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.113, Penguin

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• The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.

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  Encounters, Truth Is, Should

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• She is close enough to me that I can see her, because even now there is the outward sign of visible light, even at night in this parking lot on the outskirts of Algoe. After we kiss, our foreheads touch as we stare at each other. Yes, I can see her almost perfectly in this cracked darkness.

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  Kissing, Night, Light

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• Thank you," I say, pounding his back probably too hard. "That was the best damned passenger-seat driving I've ever seen in my life." He pats my uninjured cheek with his greasy hand. "I did it to save myself, not you," he says. "Believe me when I say that you did not once cross my mind. " I laugh. "Nor you mine," I say.

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  Believe, Hands, Laughing

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• But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

  John Green

  Mean, Roots, Long

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.301, A&C Black

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• When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

  John Green

  Hipster, Fall, Alaska

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

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• I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.

  John Green

  Life, Thinking, Space

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.187, Penguin

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• This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories.

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  Sitting, Stories, My Friends

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.215, A&C Black

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• Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.

  John Green

  Thinking, Paper, Towns

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

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• Her hair is ridiculous," I said. "I know. That was the only thing I said about her that was true. When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back, you know? I mean, there are highlights. And there are streaks. And then there are skunk stripes.

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  Mean, Hair, People

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.46, A&C Black

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• 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.

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  Senior, Baby, Home

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• But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?

  John Green

  Kids, Cutting, Strings

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.105, A&C Black

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• And I vaguely remember her smiling at me from the door way the glittering ambiguity of a girls smile, which seems to promise an answer to the question, but never gives it. The question, the one we’ve all been asking since girls stopped being gross, the question that is to simple to be uncomplicated: Does she like me or does she LIKE me?

  John Green

  Girl, Simple, Doors

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