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John Green Quotes - Page 27

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You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.

You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.

People, Alabama, Bad Things

The Colonel led all the cheers. Cornbread!" he screamed. CHICKEN!" the crowd responded. Rice!" PEAS!" And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER SATs." Hip Hip Hip Hooray!" the Colonel cried. YOU'LL BE WORKIN' FOR US SOMEDAY!

Cheer, Together, Hips

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.40, Penguin

Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.

Beautiful, Real, Believe

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

But mothers lie. It's in the job description.

Mom, Mother, Jobs

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.14, Penguin

You're awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted.

Girl, Philosophical, Busted

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.47, Penguin

Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.

Amusement, Good Things, Mutual

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.18, A&C Black

Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries - God, the nature of the universe, etc. - he knew the least about tampons. To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears: he was aware of their existence, but he'd never seen on in the wild, and didn't really care to.

Laughing, Etc, Bears

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.59, Penguin

He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon strings seemed so beautiful as they rolled up and down with the wind, landing on the ground and then twirling and floating up again, falling and rising and falling and rising.

Beautiful, Fall, Wind

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.178, Penguin

I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know, I am also a girl. I'm one of the three wise MEN. And it's gay to think that James Bond is hot.

Girl, Wise, Gay

And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.

Leaving, Together, Paper

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.479, Penguin

Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.

Wikipedia, Share, Sharing Knowledge

Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together." What?" Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud." That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of." The people who've been in your secret hiding places." The people you bite your thumb in front of." Hi." Hi." ..." ..." Wow. My first Lindsey." My second Colin." That was fun. Let's try it again." Sold." ..." ..." ...".

Fun, Thinking, People

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

Friendship, People, Needs

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.44, Penguin

…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.

People, Problem, Stealing

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.36, Penguin

I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy

Listening, Strategy, Social

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.36, Penguin

Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale,” I said.

Ashes, Said, Garage

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.116, Penguin

Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children.

Dream, Children, Long

John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing

And since she drove to work every morning, I could only use the car on weekends. Well, weekends and the middle of the goddamned night.

Morning, Weekend, Night

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.28, A&C Black

You just gotta tell her, man,’ I said. ‘You just gotta say, “Angela, I really like you, but there’s something you need to know: when we go to my house and hook up, we’ll be watched by the twenty-four hundred eyes of twelve hundred black Santas.

Eye, Men, House

John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.20, Bloomsbury Publishing

You 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.

Hate, Mean, Judging

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.158, Penguin

As I followed Margo's directions through the maze of one-way streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting on benches, but nobody was moving. Margo rolled down the window, and I felt the thick air blow across my face, warmer than night ought to be. I glanced over and saw strands of her hair blowing all around her face. Even though I could see her there, I felt entirely alone among these big and empty buildings, like I'd survived the apocalypse and the world had been given to me, this whole and amazing and endless world, mine for the exploring.

Moving, Sleep, Blow

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.53, A&C Black

For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.

Real, Gone, Behinds

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.128, Penguin

But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get." I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right.

Blue, Talking, Somewhere Else

We are engaged here in the most important pusuit in history. The search for meaning. What is What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person?How did we come to be, and wha will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules this game, and how might we best play it?

Real, Games, Play

It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.

Pudge, Miles, Minors

"Looking For Alaska". Book by John Green, 2015.

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