John Green Quotes - Page 54

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• Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.

  John Green

  Falling In Love, Teenager, Love You

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• It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.

  John Green

  Robots, Pay, Explosions

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• I don't like reindeer. They seem like regular deer, only more dangerous.

  John Green

  Real, Reindeer, Dangerous

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• 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, Hands, Quiet

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.25, Penguin

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• We were kissing. I thought: This is good. I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad at all. I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe. Suddenly she laughed and pulled away from me. She wiggled a hand out of her sleeping bag and wiped her face. "You slobbered on my nose," she said, and laughed

  John Green

  Real, Sleep, Kissing

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.95, Penguin

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• If drunk were cookies, I'd be Famous Amos

  John Green

  Drunk, Cookies, Ifs

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.135, Penguin

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• The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated discussion classes. I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn't sound dumb, and I hated how it was all just a game of trying to figure out what the teacher wanted to hear and then saying it. I'm in class, so teach me.

  John Green

  Notebook, Teacher, Talking

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.30, Penguin

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• In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in relationship to the monotony of dumping: we have thirty-two teeth. After a while, having each tooth individually destroyed probably gets repetitive, even dull. But it never stops hurting.

  John Green

  Crush, Hurt, Two

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.93, Penguin

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• Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.

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  Home, Self, Long

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

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• Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus.

  John Green

  Keys, Bus, Shows

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.251, Penguin

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• That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.

  John Green

  Thinking, Feelings, Doe

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• Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page," Radar said. "For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris specializes in the roundhouse kick, I don't think it's accurate to say, 'Chuck Norris's tears can cure cancer, but unfortunately he has never cried.

  John Green

  Cancer, Thinking, Tears

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• Babies are made through an act that you will eventually find intriguing but for right now will just sort of horrify you, and also sometimes people do stuff that involves baby-making parts that does not actually involve making babies, like for instance kiss each other in places that are not on the face.

  John Green

  Baby, Real, Kissing

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.14, Penguin

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• Of course, sweetie," his mom said. "We'll be here all day. You just come down whenever you want and we love you and you're so so special, Colin, and you can't possibly let this girl make you think otherwise because you are the most magnificent, brilliant boy-" And right then, the most special, magnificent, brilliant boy bolted into his bathroom and puked his guts out. An explosion, sort of.

  John Green

  Girl, Mom, Love You

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• Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.

  John Green

  Unique, Car, Feelings

  "An Abundance of Katherines". Book by John Green, 2006.

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• On the morning in question, she wore white shorts and a pink T-shirt that featured a green dragon breathing a fire of orange glitter. It is difficult to explain how awesome I found this T-shirt at the time.

  John Green

  Morning, Fire, Dragons

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.4, A&C Black

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• I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater. But he wasn't crying. Curiously, he felt too depressed to cry. Too hurt. It felt as if she'd taken the part of him that cried.

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  Hurt, Real, Taken

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.14, Penguin

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• Because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you.

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  Thinking, Likes, Might

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.332, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Book, Eye, Parent

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

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• 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.

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  Morning, Stars, Real

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

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• We're not going to break anything. Don't think of it as breaking in to SeaWorld. Think of it as visiting SeaWorld in the middle of the night for free.

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  Night, Thinking, Break

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.68, A&C Black

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• I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison.

  John Green

  Morning, Snakes, Trying

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.75, A&C Black

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• Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.

  John Green

  Faces, Energy, South Carolina

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.177, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked. How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?

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  Animal, Experts, Study

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.95, A&C Black

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• Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication.

  John Green

  Being Yourself, Teenager, Lying

  "Crash Course in Community Building and Content Creation". Interview with Heike Young, www.marketingcloud.com. October 6, 2014.

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