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 GreenI feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.
John GreenYou're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.
John GreenThis is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.
John GreenErgo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.
John GreenTraveling, 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 GreenBen's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally.
John GreenGetting 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.
John GreenWhen 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 GreenAnd, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking.
John GreenIf my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they're total muggles.
John Green3 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
John GreenGrief does not change you. It reveals you. And herein lies the gift that cannot die. It changes the course of your life forever. If you allow yourself the chance to feel it for as long as you need to - even if it is for the rest of your life - you will be guided by it. You will become someone it would have been impossible for you to be, and in this way your loved one lives on, in you
John GreenWriting is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while telling it
John GreenSo here's my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will make your life more interesting. Read a little bit every day. But more importantly, surround yourself with people who you like and make cool stuff with them. In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with.
John GreenHow do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?
John GreenAnd as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation.
John GreenIn the end, I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because 1. I don't think that word should ever be used by anyone, let alone me, and 2. As it happens, I am not gay, and furthermore, 3. Chuck Parson made it out like calling yourself a faggot was the ultimate humiliation, even though there's nothing at all embarrassing about being gay.
John GreenI think maybe I know why,' she finally said. 'Why?' 'Maybe all the strings inside him broke,' she said.
John GreenI'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?
John GreenI like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.
John GreenYou are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.
John GreenYou either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.
John GreenIt seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box, that the unobserved is both there and not.
John GreenMom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds out that I did hear. She said, "I won't be a mom anymore." It gutted me pretty badly.
John GreenThe Colonel's hand was so little, and I grabbed it tight, his cold seeping into me and my warmth into him. 'I memorized the populations,' he said.
John GreenYou see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.
John GreenYou can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can't remember, because I never knew.
John GreenThis squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch me—oh, god!
John GreenBooks are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
John GreenI am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.
John GreenThey were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father.
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