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John Green Quotes - Page 31

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“I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally in the heart of Jesus.” “Someone should tell Jesus,” I said. “I mean, it's gotta be dangerous, storing children with cancer in your heart.” “I would tell Him

“I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally in the heart of Jesus.” “Someone should tell Jesus,” I said. “I mean, it's gotta be dangerous, storing children with cancer in your heart.” “I would tell Him myself.” Augustus said, “but unfortunately I am literally stuck inside of His heart, so He won't be able to hear me.”

Jesus, Children, Real

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

And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.

Book, Thinking, Kind

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.45, Penguin

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

Stars, Truth, Hipster

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.113, Penguin

Headline?" he asked. "'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said. "'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said. "'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said.

Lonely, Children, Home

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.86, Penguin UK

I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.

People, Would Be, Force

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.755, Penguin

What's that?" "The laundry basket?" "No, next to it." "I don't see anything next to it." "It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small.

Lasts, Next, Dignity

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.142, Penguin

I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,' Augustus interrupted. 'Please to be eating your sandwich and listening.

Listening, Sandwiches, Eating

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.88, Penguin

Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool,' I answered.

Pride, Knowing, Malls

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.668, Penguin

Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.

Love, Real, Water

I could be worse, you know." "How?" I asked, teasing. "I mean, I have a work of calligraphy over my toilet that reads, 'Bathe yourself in the comfort of God's words,' Hazel. I could be way worse." "Sounds unsanitary," I said.

Mean, Sound, Comfort

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.169, Penguin

I've gotten really hot since you went blind.

Hot, Blind

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.78, Penguin

It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.' 'Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said. 'It can be sort of blinding,' he said. 'It actually did blind our friend Isaac,' I said. 'Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?' 'You cannot.' 'It is my burden, this beautiful face.' 'Not to mention your body.' 'Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.

Beautiful, Stupid, Oxygen

That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjectival version of the word pedophile? You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

Romantic, Girl, I Like You

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.123, Penguin

I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin.

Voice, Skins, Made

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.26, Penguin

It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a while different person.

Girl, Distance, Different

Augustus Waters," I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank House, and then thinking that Anne Frank, after all, kissed someone in the Anne Frank House, and that she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become a place where the young and irreparably broken sink into love.

Real, Home, Kissing

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.131, Penguin UK

It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?

Hate, Kids, Bullshit

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.278, Penguin

So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.

Couple, Team, Missing

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.107, Penguin

You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.

Beautiful, Lying, Arguing

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.145, Penguin

I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

Encouragement, Bullshit, Funeral

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.273, Penguin

You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.

Inspiring, Real, Long

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.272, Penguin

History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people have been making decisions that irrevocably shaped the world that we live in today; just as today, we are making subtle, irrevocable decisions that people of the future will remember as revolutions.

Years, People, Decision

I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up.

Character, Flaws, These Days

In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them.

Religious, Men, Historical

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.39, Penguin

The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals will frolic and fight. There will be no lord of the manor, which is not such a bad thing, because it seems to me that people have done a pretty poor job of guiding the biosphere for the last few thousand years.

Jobs, Fighting, Animal

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