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John Green Quotes - Page 44

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I wouldn't have cared if my girlfriend was a Jaguar-driving Cyclops with a beard - I'd have been grateful just to have someone to make out with.

I wouldn't have cared if my girlfriend was a Jaguar-driving Cyclops with a beard - I'd have been grateful just to have someone to make out with.

Girlfriend, Grateful, Jaguars

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.31, Penguin

Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it.

Jesus, Talking, People

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

I stood under the awning for a moment, but finally I decided that being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

Bad Mood, Moments, Beats

John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.105, Penguin

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.

Hurt, Thinking, Missing

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.98, Penguin

Television is a passivity.

Television, Passivity

John Green (2008). “Paper Towns”, p.241, Penguin

The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.

Two, Verbs, Matter

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.134, Penguin

I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.

Lasts, Last Words, Knows

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.107, Penguin

Throughout the book, she refers to herself as "the side effect," which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible.

Cancer, Book, Kids

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.49, Penguin

The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.

Past, Eight, Light

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.112, Penguin UK

He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.

Giving, Mouths, Killing

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.146, Penguin

I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

Wanted, Persons

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.685, Penguin

I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around.

Hurt, Real, Thinking

Breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; its something that happens with you.

Real, Done, Happens

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.402, Penguin

She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.

Alaska, Knowing, Pranks

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.106, Penguin

And it was just the three of us - three bodies and two people - the three who knew what had happened and too many layers between all of us too much keeping us from one another.

Two, People, Three

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.190, Penguin

No," I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator.

Alaska, Said, Brake

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.156, Penguin

Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans." "But you are an American." "Incurably so, it seems.

America, Encounters, Knows

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.105, Penguin

Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway

Worry, Useless, Worried

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.697, Penguin

My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces. It signified that I trusted them, that I was myself in front of them.

Parent, Faces, Pleasure

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.106, A&C Black

But in AIA, Anna decides that being a person with cancer who starts a cancer charity is a bit narcissistic, so she starts a charity called The Anna Foundation for People with cancer Who Want to Cure Cholera.

Cancer, People, Foundation

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.36, Penguin

People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die.

Mistake, Cancer, Years

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.65, Penguin

Agustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so I passed.

Cancer, Tired, Support

We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.

Two, Facts, Canals

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.105, Penguin UK

That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.

Team, Grace, Roaring

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.115, Penguin

I can't imagine us saying these things to each other out loud. But even if I can't imagine hearing these words, I can imagine living them. I don't even picture it. Instead I'm in it. How I would feel with him here. That peace. It would be so happy, and it makes me sad because it only exists in words.

Would Be, Hearing, Imagine

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

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