John Green Quotes - Page 48

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• And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees - breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; it's something that happens with you.

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  Moral Of The Story, Stories, Done

  John Green (2012). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.195, Penguin UK

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• I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, 'I'm busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do.' WHATEVER! READ! I mean, you're watching CSI: Miami. Why would you be watching CSI: Miami, when you could be READING CSI: Miami, the novelization?

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  Jobs, Teenager, Book

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• The fundamental mistake I had always made - and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make - was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

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  Girl, Real, Mistake

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.137, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.

  John Green

  Paper, Pencils, Happenings

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.90, Penguin

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• But why Alaska?' I asked her. 'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut word, Alyeska. It means 'that which the sea breaks against,' and I love that. But at the time, I just saw Alaska up there. And it was big, just like I wanted to be.

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  Mean, Alaska, Sea

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.47, Penguin

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• Sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad.

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  Dad, Real, Kissing

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.209, Penguin

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• The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not.

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  May, Faults, Invincible

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

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• Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds. Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force.

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  Believe, Cutting, Ideas

  "Paper Towns". Book by John Green, 2008.

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• And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.

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  Labyrinth Looking For Alaska, Fingers, Screwed Up

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• still, what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? that if he got blue, i got black? that i hated those pills so much, because i knew how much i relied on them to live?

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  Blue, Black, Mind

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• I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.” - Takumi

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  Foxes, Hills, Strawberries

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• You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.

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  Romantic, Real, Sleep

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.47, Penguin

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• Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?

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  Letting Go, Painless, Ifs

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

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• Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down

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  Lying, Done, Baths

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.13, Penguin

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• I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you for all my days if you just this once provide me with an invisibility cloak, come on, come on, please please invisibility cloak now now now-. It's very possible that Jane is thinking the same thing, I have no idea, because she's not talking either, and I can't look at her on account of how I'm blinded by embarrassment.

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  Moving, Thinking, Invisibility Cloak

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• I make a gesture that is intended to convey, "Hey, no hurry, talk as long as you'd like," and probably actually conveys, "Hey, look at me! I have spastic hands.

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  Hands, Long, Looks

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.82, Penguin

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• Random questions are the least random of all questions.

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  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.83, Penguin

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• Because you're my friend, wingnut.

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  My Friends

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.170, Penguin

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• And I wrote my way out of the labyrinth.

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  Labyrinth, Way, My Way

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.

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  Should Have, Twenties, Done

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.97, Penguin

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• I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

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  Journey, Leaving, Towns

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.229, A&C Black

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• 3 whole Catfish, Wrapped separately Veet (It’s for Shaving your legs Only you don’t Need A razor. It’s with all the Girly cosmetic stuff) Vaseline six pack, Mountain Dew One dozen Tulips one Bottle Of water Tissues One Can of blue Spray paint

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  Girly, Blue, Water

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.31, A&C Black

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• If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.

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  Paranoid, Happens, Happenings

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• Like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows, and that kind of bright, soft light you get when the sun isn't quite setting? That's the light that makes everything better, everything prettier, and today, everything just seemed to be in that light.

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  Light, Long, Shadow

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.89, Penguin

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• The punch connected, but (1) Colin forgot to close his fist, so he was slapping not hitting, and (2) instead of slapping TOC, he ended up slapping Hassan flush across the cheek, whereupon Hassan finally succeeded in falling down.

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  Fall, Hitting, Fists

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.166, Penguin

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