She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.
John GreenIf I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!
John GreenNo woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression?
John GreenOh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.
John GreenAll at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.
John GreenDestiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect.
John GreenBut pizza was originally Italian, although, Italian pizza doesn't taste much like this because this pizza is fortified with sodium. Which is a mineral...or a vitamin. All I know is that it's good for you.
John GreenI couldn't hear a thing in the world but you. And it was so cold then, and so silent, and I loved you so much. Now it's hot and dead quiet again, and I love you still.
John GreenShe’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.
John GreenEvery second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever.
John GreenYou shall love your neighbour With your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.
John GreenI inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up.
John GreenYou know what I hate? The outdoors. I mean, generally. I don't like outside. I'm an inside person. I'm all about refrigeration and indoor plumbing and Judge Judy.
John GreenI hated cranberry sauce, but for some reason my mom persisted in her lifelong belief that it was my very favorite food, even though every single Thanksgiving I politely declined to include it on my plate.
John GreenBooks so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
John GreenWhen it comes to girls (and in Colin's case, it so often did), everyone has a type. Colin Singleton's type was not physical but linguistic: he liked Katherines. And not Katies or Kats or Kitties or Cathys or Rynns or Trinas or Kays or Kates or, god forbid, Catherines. K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E. He had dated 19 girls. All of them had been named Katherine. And all of them- every single solitary one- had dumped him.
John Green"You are fairly smart," I said after a while. "You are fairly good at compliments," he answered.
John GreenThe snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.
John GreenYou're amazing, and I so want to be your boyfriend, because of what you just said, and also because that shirt makes me want to take you home and do unspeakable things while we watch live-action Sailor Moon videos
John GreenBut that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail
John GreenI'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
John GreenNot the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.
John GreenI kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around.
John GreenThe pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.
John GreenWe're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?
John GreenLike 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.
John GreenI'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.
John GreenIt was nice - in the dark and the quiet... and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing.
John GreenWell, but you can eat Grandma's cookies. They're not bad for you. They were made by Grandma. Grandma wouldn't hurt you.
John GreenI don't think ministering requires a religious context. The number one thing is that every parent is extremely worried about their kid. Of course, when a chaplain shows up, that can exacerbate this worry rather than calm it.
John GreenSupport Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.
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