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John Green Quotes - Page 13

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You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

Caring, Doe, Misery

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.14, Penguin

No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.

Anger, Sadness, Reason

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.115, Penguin

I always had this secret suspicion that I was special.

Secret, Special, Suspicion

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.136, Penguin

The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing.

Enjoy, Noticing

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.32, Penguin

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.

Towns, Planning, Anticipation

John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.160, Bloomsbury Publishing

But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.

Eye, House, Trying

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

Alternatives, Beats

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.287, A&C Black

But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

Romantic, Real, Believe

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.75, Penguin

One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.

Smart, Green, Idiot

Love is tied to truth.

Love Is, Tied

"Will Grayson, Will Grayson". Book by David Levithan, John Green, and Rodrigo Corral, April 6, 2010.

memories fall apart too.

Memories, Fall, Falling Apart

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, Penguin

It 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.

Alive, Boxes, Seems

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.123, Penguin

You can't dingleberry that! That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry!

Misuse

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.86, Penguin

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

Life, Stars, Real

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.148, Penguin

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

Pain, Real, Green

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.176, Penguin

I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now.

Real, Teenager, Emotional

Writing does not resurrect. It buries.

Writing, Doe

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.152, Penguin

You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

Hipster, Unrequited Love, Way

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.30, Penguin

There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.

Differences, People, Genius

John Green (2006). “An Abundance of Katherines”, Dutton Childrens Books

And, 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.

Talking, People, Needs

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.102, Penguin

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

Life, Hipster, Sky

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.151, A&C Black

Also, I feel that crying is almost--like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever-- totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1.Don't care too much. 2. Shut up. Everything unfortunate that has ever happened to me has stemmed from failure to follow one of the rules.

Simple, Two, Care

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.6, Penguin

And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long.

Thinking, Long, Stories

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.198, Penguin

The worse the haircut, the better the man.

Men, Haircuts

Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.

Mother, Book, Winter

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.169, Penguin

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