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John Green Quotes - Page 39

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He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.

He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.

Details, Stories

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.68, Penguin

They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.

Real, Coffee, Ex Boyfriend

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.76, Penguin

I don't really care how people read. I care if people read.

People, Care, I Care

I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r

Believe, Writing, Fire

Truth resists simplicity.

Life, Simplicity

I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species.

Morning, Love Is, Loving Someone

The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty years there will be no one to remember our silly war, Caroline’s wasted ammunition, my year of zombic survivalism, Rene DesCartes’s musings, or Michelangelo’s sculptures. And that is really only the sadness here as I drink a thousand-dollar bottle of wine down here in the cellar: We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.

War, Silly, Wine

Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people.

Dog, People, Realizing

A small olive-skinned creature who had hit puberty but never hit it very hard, Ben had been my best friend since fifth grade, when we both finally owned up to the fact that neither of us was likely to attract anyone else as a best friend.

My Best Friend, Olives, Fifth Grade

John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.14, Bloomsbury Publishing

Let's make a deal: You figure out what the labyrinth is and how to get out of it, and i'll get you laid. -Alaska Young

Alaska, Labyrinth, Figures

As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

Powerful, Kissing, Two

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.213, A&C Black

Ben's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally.

Tongue, Should, Sunscreen

I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.

Self, Diagnosis

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.54, Penguin

It's fine," I repeated. And whatever. It was fine. It had to be.

Fine

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.120, Penguin

I was thinking about this girl you love so much," she said, "And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it.

Girl, Fall, Thinking

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.133, Penguin

Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I didn't like it. Plus, my best friend is a walking cautionary tale of what happens to you when romantic relationships don't involve marriage. Like you always say, kafir, everything ends in breakup, divorce, or death. I want to narrow my misery options to divorce or death - that's all.

Girl, Breakup, Drama

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.174, Penguin

She said Robert Joyner had killed himself with a gun. And then I asked why, and then she told me that he was getting a divorce and was sad about it.' 'Lots of people get divorces and don't kill themselves,' I said. 'I know,' she said, excitement in her voice. 'That's what I told her.

Divorce, Gun, Voice

I think maybe I know why,' she finally said. 'Why?' 'Maybe all the strings inside him broke,' she said.

Thinking, Broke, Strings

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.436, Penguin

She never acted as if she liked him all that much, but then she never acted as if she liked anyone all that much.

Ifs

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.17, A&C Black

Interesting capitalization,' I said. 'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle.

Interesting, Towns, Unfair

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.32, A&C Black

I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

Years, Who Cares, Paper

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.58, A&C Black

The thing about That Guy Is a Gigolo,' Radar says, 'I mean, the thing about it as a game, is that in the end it reveals a lot more about the person doing the imagining than it does about the person being imagined.

Mean, Games, Guy

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.258, A&C Black

I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.

Loneliness, Waiting, Want

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.295, A&C Black

But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take Alaska's genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. There is something else entirely. There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed

Real, Believe, Alaska

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

She would stay on the road and in hiding, a balloon floating through the sky, eating up hundreds of miles a day with a help of the perpetual tailwind.

Sky, Floating, Balloons

"Paper Towns". Book by John Green, October 16, 2008.

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