John Green Quotes - Page 38

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• I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the good kids and all kids--as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.

  John Green

  Kids, People, Peers

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.136, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus.

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  Jesus, Hipster, Heart

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.181, Penguin UK

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• Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

  John Green

  Children, Sick, Want

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.110, Penguin

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• At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her days without increasing the number of them.

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  New York, Numbers, Misery

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.832, Penguin

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• She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.

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  Men, Earth, Old Man

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.199, Penguin UK

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• Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

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  Romantic, Stars, Keeping Promises

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.42, Penguin

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• Long week. Long month. Long life.

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  Long, Months, Week

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.161, Penguin

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• Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.” “My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s pause. “I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.” “Too soon,” Isaac said, cracking a smile. “Was that insensitive?” Augustus asked. “I can be pretty blind to other people’s feelings.

  John Green

  Dark, Men, People

  John Green (2008). “Paper Towns”, p.245, Penguin

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• 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

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• I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!

  John Green

  Love, Life, Heart

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• The things I would do to that boy. I mean, not now that I know you're interested in him. But, oh, sweet holy Lord, I would ride that one-legged pony all the way around the corral." "Kaitlyn," I said. "Sorry. Do you think you'd have to be on top?" "Kaitlyn," I said.

  John Green

  Sweet, Sorry, Mean

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.94, Penguin

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• And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

  John Green

  Genius, Prodigies, Colin Singleton

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.91, Penguin

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• We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?

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  Grizzly Bears, Strategy, Grizzlies

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.156, Penguin

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• If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd just let myself be trampled to death by the Satan Pig.

  John Green

  Pigs, Speech, Lips

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.169, Penguin

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• 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

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• It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I just looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed and turned away, placing the side of his head against the window.

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  Rising Up, Joy, Looks

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• We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim - as you will be - of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible.

  John Green

  Cancer, Water, Battle

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.266, Penguin

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• But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling, the waves tossing me against the rocks then pulling me back out to sea so they could launch me again into the jagged face of the cliff, leaving me floating faceup on the water, undrowned.

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  Rocks, Sea, Water

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.170, Penguin UK

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• He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.

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  Kissing, Anticipation, Moments

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.78, Penguin

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• You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

  John Green

  Baby, Sadness, Joy

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.103, Penguin

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• Can I ask you about Caroline Mathers?" "And you say there's no afterlife.

  John Green

  Afterlife, Asks

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.100, Penguin

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• The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning, the terrible ferocity that amateurs in the field of suffering might mistake for weakness.

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  Mistake, Suffering, Wish

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.139, Penguin UK

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• Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich

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  Blue, Whales, Skinny

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.16, Penguin

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• I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'.

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  Boys, Thinking, Years

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• It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.

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  People, Chocolate, Dying

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.18, Penguin

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