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John Green Quotes

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John Green
“Nobody gets anybody else, not really. We're all stuck inside ourselves.”
John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

John Green
“How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?”
John Green, Looking for Alaska

John Green
“And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
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John Green
“Like, the world is billions of years old, and life is a product of nucleotide mutation and everything. But the world is also the stories we tell about it.”
John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

John Green
“I am thinking that I don't want this to happen. I don't want to die. I don't want my friends to die. And to be honest, as the time slows down and my hands are in the air, I am afforded the chance to think one more thought, and I think about her. I blame her for this ridiculous, fatal chase--for putting us at risk, for making me into the kind of jackass who would stay up all night and drive too fast. I would not be dying were it not for her. I would have stayed home, as I have always stayed home, and I would've been safe, and I would have done the one thing I have always wanted to do, which is to grow up.”
john green, Paper Towns

John Green
“Dr. Karen Singh liked to say that a unwanted thought was like a car driving past you when you're standing on on the side of the road, and I told myself I didn't have to get into that car, that my moment of choice was not whether to have the thought, but whether to be carried away by it.
And then I got in the car.”
John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

John Green
“And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”
John Green, Paper Towns

John Green
“I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.”
John Green, This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

John Green
“I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.”
John Green

John Green
“You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

John Green
“The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

John Green
“Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.”
John Green

John Green
“What's the meaning of life? Other people.”
John Green

John Green
“As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

John Green
“Hi, I’m at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

John Green
“Reading someone's poetry is like seeing them naked" -Davis Pritchett”
John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

John Green
“Pain demands to be felt.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

John Green
“I'm on a rollercoaster that only goes up”
John Green

John Green
“I want more numbers that I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I can not tell you thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

John Green
“Leaving feels too good, once you leave.”
John Green, Paper Towns

John Green
“Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Let's put it this way- if The Fault in Our Stars was a person I would marry them. Will Grayson, WIll Grayson would be my maid/man of honor. Alaska and Paper Towns, An Abundance of Katherines and Let it Snow would be my best friends. In short- you can't go wrong with John Green. Ever.”
Emma Crape

John Green
“It's turtles all the way fucking down, Holmesy. You're trying to find the turtle at the bottom of the pile, but that's not how it works."

"Because it's turtles all the way down," I said again, feeling something akin to a spiritual revelation.”
John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

John Green
“pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!”
John Green, Paper Towns

John Green
“Augustus Waters was sitting on the front step as we pulled into the driveway. He was holding a bouquet of bright orange tulips just beginning to bloom.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

John Green
“Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. So I looked him over as Patrick acknowledged for the thousandth time his ball-lessness etc. and soon it was a staring contest. After a while the boy smiled, and then finally his blue eyes glanced away. When he looked back at me, I flicked my eyebrows up to say, I win.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

John Green
“Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

John Green
“I have an Augustus Waters fetish," I explained.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

John Green
“So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided - maybe there's like a secret cabal of boys who meet in the locker room and decide who's ugly and who's hot, because as far as I can remember, there was no such thing as a hot fourth-grader. - Lindsey Lee Wells”
John Green

John Green
“When was the last good kiss you had?”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars