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John Green Quotes - Page 46

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I do love you and what else matters but that

I do love you and what else matters but that

Love You, Matter

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.68, Penguin

Suffering is universal.

Hipster, Suffering, Universal

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.84, Penguin

We fell. We got up. We ran.

Ran

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.83, Penguin

Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.

Lying, Hands, Fiction

We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.

Important, Looks, Lines

This is so much fun, but I’m so sleepy. To be continued?

Fun, Sleepy, Alaska Young

He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was.

Beautiful, Boys, Supposed To Be

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

But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail

Teenage, Alaska, Teens

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

There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.

Suffering, Labyrinth, Mazes

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, Penguin

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

Cancer, Thinking, Dying

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.217, Penguin

You'll live forever in our hearts, big man. That particularly galled me, because it implied the immortality of those left behind: You will live forever in my memory, because I will live forever! I AM YOUR GOD NOW, DEAD BOY! I OWN YOU!

Memories, Real, Heart

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.171, Penguin UK

And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.

Jobs, Nice, School

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.33, A&C Black

I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile.

Real

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

You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean. "I'll look it up." No. With Me. At my house. Now

Mean, House, Looks

But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can be is me.

Hurt, Men, Wounded

John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.201, Bloomsbury Publishing

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

Suffering, Matter, Towns

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.301, A&C Black

I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know?

Imagine, Wells, Be You

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.302, A&C Black

This is what happens: somebody—girl usually—got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons. They strain against the string and strain against it, and then something happens, and that string gets cut, and they just float away. And maybe you never see the balloon again . . . Or maybe three or four years from now, or three or four days from now, the prevailing winds take the balloon back home . . . But listen, kid, that string gets cut all the time.

Girl, Kids, Home

The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me, extinguishes me.

Said, They Said

I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then I said that the statue was built not for Schultz, but for us--to remind us how to be human.

Men, Comfort, Cold

The minister said, “Let us pray,” but as everyone else bowed their head, I could only stare slack-jawed at the sight of Peter Van Houten. After a moment, he whispered, “We gotta fake pray,” and bowed his head.

Sight, Fake, Praying

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.175, Penguin UK

And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

Alaska, Imagining The Future, Labyrinth

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

You never know. It's just. It's like. POOF. And you're gone.

Gone, Knows

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.109, Penguin

I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read.

Dad, Home, Feelings

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.65, Penguin

Whatever. Great day. Today. Best day of my life.

Great Day, Today

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.92, Penguin

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