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John Green Quotes - Page 18

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When was the last good kiss you had?

When was the last good kiss you had?

Kissing, Lasts, Hazel Grace Lancaster

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.48, Penguin

I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him - that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter.

Loss, Tragedy, Finals

"The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

Want, Had Enough, Ghost

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Penguin

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?

Pain, Talking, Alaska

Getting a life’ is something only a complete idiot could believe. Like you can just drive to a store and get a life. See it in its shiny box and look inside the plastic window and catch a glimpse of yourself in a new life and say, ‘Wow, I look much happier — I think this is the life I need to get!’, take it to the counter, ring it up, put it on your credit card. If getting a life was that easy, we’d be one blissed-out race.

Believe, Thinking, Race

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.44, Penguin

You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!

Girlfriend, Today, Terrorist

Grief 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

Lying, Grief, Long

Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others.

Roles, Complexity, Humans

I'm not from Indianapolis, but I like living in Indianapolis. If I were to explain it, I'd tell someone to imagine a city that perfectly captures the best and the worst of America. Imagine the truly American city, because that's what it is.

Cities, America, Imagine

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

I opened the door. He looked down at my shirt and smiled. "Funny," he said. "Don't call my boobs funny," I answered.

Doors, Shirts, Said

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.179, Penguin

Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.

Stupid, Real, Believe

"John Green asks himself "Why is being a nerd bad?" in July 27: How Nerdfighters Drop Insults". www.youtube.com. July 27, 2007.

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

True Love, Real, Believe

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.85, Penguin

See, popularity is complicated. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about liking; you have to really like being liked, and also sort like being disliked.

Thinking, Complicated, Like You

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.130, Penguin

Think for one minute of those who have loved you up into this day.

Thinking, Minutes, One Minute

I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.

Nihilism, Nihilist, No Point

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

But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.

Stars, Cassius, Brutus

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.80, Penguin UK

I think about how much depends upon a best friend. Then you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not.

Morning, Thinking, Feet

I mean, it’s stupid to miss someone you didn’t even get along with. But I don’t know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with.

Missing Someone, Nice, Stupid

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.56, Penguin

This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

Firsts, First Time, Happens

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.228, A&C Black

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

Book, Library, Unbearable

"Looking for Alaska". Book by John Green, March 3, 2005.

Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does not exist for the benefit of the author, the book exists for the benefit of YOU. If we as readers can have a bigger and richer experience with the world as a result of reading a symbol and that symbol wasn't intended by the author, WE STILL WIN.

Book, Reading, Winning

You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.

Song, Hate, Rainbow

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

You were clearly not doing your part in the clover search, perv.

Hipster, Clovers, Pervs

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.35, Penguin

I am a giant squid of anger.

Hipster, Squids, Giants

It turns out that, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.

Hipster, Optimistic, Numbers

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