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John Green Quotes - Page 17

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

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

Moving, Weather, Internet

Not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.

Hipster, Done, Errands

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.304, A&C Black

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

Change, Grief, Loss

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.162, Penguin

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

Hipster, People, House

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.57, A&C Black

We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

Real, Done, Reader

We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it down because it threatens the overall quality and breadth of American literature.

Lying, Book, Soul

"John Green: why I'll never self-publish" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2013.

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

Memories, Hipster, Towns

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

Night falls fast. Today is the past.

Fall, Past, Night

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.74, Penguin

That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.

Running, Fear, Glasses

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.109, Penguin

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

Inspirational, Funny, Life

"The Teen Whisperer" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 9 & 16, 2014.

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

Book, Algorithms, Good Book

The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis.

Ideas, People, Important

"Crash Course in Community Building and Content Creation". Interview with Heike Young, www.marketingcloud.com. October 6, 2014.

The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available.

Internet, Censored, Available

"Crash Course in Community Building and Content Creation". Interview with Heike Young, www.marketingcloud.com. October 6, 2014.

I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.

Girlfriend, Bad Boyfriend, Looking For Alaska Book

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.33, Penguin

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

Worry, Dying, Sides

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.685, Penguin

One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response to it. You can see people respond to your work visually or musically or with writing.

Writing, People, Age

"Q&A: John Green & Nat Wolff on ‘Paper Towns’ Themes, Inside Jokes, Nicknames". Interview with Seth Kelley, variety.com. July 19, 2015.

I'm interested in Internet cultures. I'm interested in what the teenagers who drive the Internet culture are passionate about. I follow their lead - they go to tumblr, I go to tumblr.

Teenager, Culture, Passionate

Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.

Dawn, Tonight, Good Times

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.70, A&C Black

The way we still essentializ, we're constantly essentializing people as merely poor, or merely other, and in the end you can't have a relationship with people. I think the biggest job of adulthood is to learn to imagine other people complexly.

Jobs, Thinking, People

"Q&A: John Green & Nat Wolff on ‘Paper Towns’ Themes, Inside Jokes, Nicknames". Interview with Seth Kelley, variety.com. July 19, 2015.

That's absolutely true, about the eight glasses a day. There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water. Most experts agree that unless there's something horribly wrong with you, you should just drink water whenever you're - get this - thirsty.

Glasses, Eight, Water

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.37, Penguin

Imagine others complexly.

Imagine

Twitter post from Mar 18, 2014

You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was.

Distance, Kids, Wind

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.

Believe, Choices, Stories

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.120, Penguin

She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was still her hand, still warm and the nails painted this almost black dark blue and I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.

Falling In Love, Cancer, Eye

"The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

Dark, Men, Blind

John Green (2008). “Paper Towns”, p.245, Penguin

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