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John Green Quotes - Page 29

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Yeah, so if that guy can make it in drunk, surely we can make it in sober. I mean, we’re ninjas.' 'Well, maybe you’re a ninja,' I said. 'You’re just a really loud, awkward ninja,' Margo said, 'but we are both ninjas.

Yeah, so if that guy can make it in drunk, surely we can make it in sober. I mean, we’re ninjas.' 'Well, maybe you’re a ninja,' I said. 'You’re just a really loud, awkward ninja,' Margo said, 'but we are both ninjas.

Mean, Drunk, Guy

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.72, A&C Black

We imagine people as animals or gods. -But she was just a person, a girl.

Girl, Animal, People

Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is used to cut diamonds.

Cutting, Prom Queen, Ideas

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.16, A&C Black

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

Suffering, Band, Tone

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.439, Penguin

Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

Sports, Goal, One Day

John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.16, Bloomsbury Publishing

We got off at the next exit, quietly, and, switching drivers, we walked in front of the car. We met and I held him, my hands balled into tight fists around his shoulders, and he wrapped his short arms around me and squeezed tight, so that I felt the heaves of his chest as we realized over and over again that we were still alive. I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, 'God we must look so lame,' but it doesn't matter when you have just now realized, all the time later, that you are still alive.

Real, Hands, Car

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.164, Penguin

Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

Rights, Needs, Tonight

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.30, A&C Black

I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.

Time, School, Winter

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

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

Funny, Senior, Queens

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.489, Penguin

He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?

Jesus, Kids, Gun

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

I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

Girl, Hero, Home

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

Shame about how we’re gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It’s the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is “sodomy’’.

Mean, Tennessee, Half

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.35, Penguin

We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.

Needs

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.157, Penguin

The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.

Party, Two, People

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.12, Penguin

Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

Boys, Alaska, Cooking

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.73, Penguin

It doesn’t matter how long we’ve used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really, really awesome, whereas ebooks—at least so far—are fairly limited in their awesomeness.

Technology, Mp3, Long

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

Real, Book, Conversation

We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time

Play, Broken, Lasts

I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. I preferred the Colonel: At least when he was cranky, he had a reason.

Sweet, Flirty, Alaska

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.63, Penguin

I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'.

Writing, Phrases, Paper

In the end, I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because 1. I don't think that word should ever be used by anyone, let alone me, and 2. As it happens, I am not gay, and furthermore, 3. Chuck Parson made it out like calling yourself a faggot was the ultimate humiliation, even though there's nothing at all embarrassing about being gay.

Gay, Thinking, Annoyed

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.60, A&C Black

Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

Animal, People, Fundamentals

John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.136, Bloomsbury Publishing

I expertly angled my raison bran to accomodate the g-forces.

Force, G Force

Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else...But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists.

Perfect, Machines, World

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

Writing, Funny Things, Dancing

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