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John Green Quotes - Page 32

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but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.

but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.

Forever, Sun, Collapse

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.17, Penguin

I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.

Has Beens

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.51, Penguin

All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.

Abstract, Representation

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.103, Penguin

When you’re as charming and physically attractive as myself, it’s easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to love you...now, that’s the trick.

Love You, Winning, People

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.235, Penguin

the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.

Suffering, Nihilism, Problem

You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting.

Book, Interesting, President

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.89, Penguin

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.

Boys, Strategy, Monopoly

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.172, Penguin

I don't know why boys expect us to like boy movies. We don't expect them to like girl movies.

Girl, Boys, Knows

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.28, Penguin

Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.

Night, Waiting, Want

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.29, Penguin

So I wasn't lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths.

Lying

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.33, Penguin

Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

Dad, Book, Reading

John Green (2006). “An Abundance of Katherines”, Dutton Childrens Books

The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

Myopia, Invisible, Inevitable

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.40, Penguin

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

Ships, Consciousness, Barnacles

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.689, Penguin

If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

Flower, Vases, Rooms

"The Fault In Our Stars". Book by John Green and Rodrigo Corral, archive.org. 2012.

He responded a few minutes later. Okay. I wrote back. Okay. He responded: Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!

Flirting, Minutes, Okay

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.63, Penguin

So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise has a ten-yard head start. In the time it takes you to run that ten yards, the tortoise has moved one yard. And then in the time it takes you to make up that distance, the tortoise goes a bit farther, and so on forever. You are faster than the tortoise but you can never catch him; you can only decrease his lead.

Running, Distance, Race

They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father.

Father, Teenager, Voice

Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds out that I did hear. She said, "I won't be a mom anymore." It gutted me pretty badly.

Mom, Dad, Wish

Dad had a sign of his own. MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, it read, and then underneath that (AND GUS).

Beautiful, Dad, Gus

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.126, Penguin

Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes.

Eye, Robots, Isaac

It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.

Self, Way, Imagine

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.265, Penguin

And I put the latte down on a table, awash in the happy middle of my greatest adventure.

Adventure, Tables, Lattes

John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.125, Penguin

All hurt is brain hurt.

Hurt, Brain

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.167, Penguin

Colin Singleton’s distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

Distance, Glasses, Myopia

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.40, Penguin

It always happened like this: he would look and look for the keys to Satan’s Hearse and then finally he’d just give up and say, “Fine. I’ll take the fugging bus,” and on his way out the door, he’d see the keys. Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus; Katherines appear when you start to disbelieve the world contains another Katherine; and, sure enough, the Eureka moment arrived just as he began to accept it would never come.

Giving Up, Real, Keys

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.251, Penguin

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