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John Green Quotes - Page 3

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The amazing thing is that we're right to hold onto hope. The world may be broken but hope is not crazy.

The amazing thing is that we're right to hold onto hope. The world may be broken but hope is not crazy.

Crazy, Broken, World

We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.

Believe, Indestructible

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

I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.

Thinking, Missing, Pieces

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.187, Penguin

Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's something you just are.

You Choose

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

Book, Reading, Helping

What matters to you defines your mattering.

Hipster, What Matters, Matter

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.405, Penguin

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

Romantic, Heartbreak, Stars

I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all the small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. But, talking to you makes me feel like the fan's been turned off for a little bit. Like things could actually make sense. You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that so much.

Life, Talking, Appreciate

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.26, Penguin

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.

Inspiring, Pain, Thinking

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.35, Penguin

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Freedom, Thinking, Cities

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.106, Penguin UK

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

Inspirational, Life, Thinking

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.58, Penguin

I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

Believe, Knowing, Adults

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.223, Penguin

Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget.

Good Friend, Impossible To Forget, Hard

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.659, Penguin

Love is keeping the promise anyway.

Life, Love Is, Keeping Promises

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.42, Penguin

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

People, Too Much, Way

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.136, Penguin

Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.

Nice, Smart, Hot

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.120, Penguin

I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.

Meaningful, Real, Good Friend

"Read The Heartbreaking Letter The Girl Who Inspired TFIOS Wrote To Her Future Self" by Kristin Harris, www.seventeen.com. May 30, 2014.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

Life, Hipster, Believe

"Paper Towns". Book by John Green, 2008.

I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.

Matter, Things That Matter, Feels

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.186, Penguin

To be human is to catch the falling person.

Hipster, Fall, Humans

You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.

Taste In Music, Fantastic, Social

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

Inspirational, Humorous, Unpredictable

There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.

Hipster, Poverty, Facets

"Nerdfighting in Bangladesh". www.youtube.com. April 8, 2008.

Maybe there is something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.

Life, Hurt, I Hate You

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

If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?

Memories, I Hate You, People

John Green (2012). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.141, Penguin UK

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