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John Green Quotes - Page 40

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Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt

Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt

Black, Racist, Shirts

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.256, A&C Black

How can you seperate those things though? The people are the place is the people.

People

In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.

Fall, Thinking, Years

She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.

Wine, Kissing, Different

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.128, Penguin

All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of "learned helplessness" without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of "learned blindness" ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor.

Men, May, Rich

The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.

Sarcastic, Fall, Winter

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.74, Penguin

Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it to do great things in us & through us, because suffering is fertile... it an grow new life.

Pain, Suffering, New Life

I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.

Father, Hate, Passion

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.22, Penguin

A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window.

Mirrors, Window

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.202, A&C Black

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.

Circles, Drawing, Boredom

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.129, A&C Black

Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.

Broken, Disappear, Decided

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.152, A&C Black

In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.

Book, Writing, Years

I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.

Real, Thinking, Trying

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.141, A&C Black

For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.

Way, Kind, Felt

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.215, A&C Black

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

Hipster, Alaska, Imagining The Future

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.46, Penguin

Do you guys remember that time when we were all definitely going to die and then Ben grabbed the steering wheel and dodged a ginormous freaking cow and spun the car like the teacups at Disney World and we didn't die?

Car, Guy, World

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.272, A&C Black

Margo says, "I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right.

Talking, Secret, Cracks

John Green (2008). “Paper Towns”, p.225, Penguin

Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one of them moved... the domino effect could engulf the three of us in an asphyxiating mass of literature.

Wall, Book, Library

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.21, Penguin

He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless abandon. Chip did not believe in having a sock drawer or a T-shirt drawer. He believed that all drawers were created equal and filled each with whatever fit. My mother would have died.

Mother, Believe, Clothes

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.17, Penguin

There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.

Real, School, People

You can’t divorce Margo the person from Margo the body. You can’t see one without seeing the other. You looked at Margo’s eyes and you saw both their blueness and their Margo-ness. In the end, you could not say that Margo Roth Spiegelman was fat, or that she was skinny, any more than you can say that the Eiffel Tower is or is not lonely. Margo’s beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection – uncracked and uncrackable.

Lonely, Divorce, Eye

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.50, A&C Black

So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided - maybe there's like a secret cabal of boys who meet in the locker room and decide who's ugly and who's hot, because as far as I can remember, there was no such thing as a hot fourth-grader. - Lindsey Lee Wells

Boys, Secret, Rooms

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.67, Penguin

But the fascinating and unbelievable-but-true thing about Dr. Jefferson Jeffersonis that he was not a doctor of any kind. He was just an orange juice salesman named Jefferson Jefferson. When he became rich and powerful, he went to court, made "Jefferson" his middle name, and then changed his first name to "Dr." Capital D. Lowercase r. Period.

Powerful, Doctors, Orange Juice

John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing

Well, but you can eat Grandma's cookies. They're not bad for you. They were made by Grandma. Grandma wouldn't hurt you.

Hurt, Grandma, Cookies

John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.173, Bloomsbury Publishing

10-5 space 16-5-14-19-5 space 17-21-5 space 10-5 space 20-1-9-13-5.

Space

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

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