Nerdfighter Quotes

• Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Real, People

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• When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff.' Which is not a good insult at all, like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience.

  John Green

  People, Miracle, Nerd

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• Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'.

  John Green

  People, Nerd, Stuff

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• It is so hard to leave-until you leave.

  John Green

  Leaving, Paper Books, Towns

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.228, A&C Black

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• Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.

  John Green

  Moving, Weather, Internet

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• You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

  John Green

  Real, Green, Remember

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

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• It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Life, Hipster

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

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• …because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.

  John Green

  People, Miracle, Nerd

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• Real gangster-ass Nerdfighters don't run from nothing... 'cause real gangster-ass Nerdfighters can't run fast.

  John Green

  Running, Real, Causes

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• Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.

  John Green

  Stupid, Real, Believe

  "John Green asks himself "Why is being a nerd bad?" in July 27: How Nerdfighters Drop Insults". www.youtube.com. July 27, 2007.

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• We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.

  John Green

  Wish, Remember

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• She loved mysteries so much that she became one.

  John Green

  Towns, Paper, Mystery

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

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• The town was paper, but the memories were not.

  John Green

  Memories, Hipster, Towns

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.156, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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?'.

  John Green

  Boys, Thinking, Years

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• Nerdfighter pwns woot. Everyone knows that.

  John Green

  Knows

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