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John Green Quotes - Page 47

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It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

Hurt, It Hurts, Euphemism

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.189, Penguin

I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory - recalled only on the anniversary of her death, or maybe a couple of weeks after, remembering only after having forgotten.

Couple, Memories, Thinking

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.129, Penguin

I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?

Memories, Alaska, Space

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.127, Penguin

... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.

Suicide, Let Her Go, Feels

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Penguin

I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.

Happiness, Happy, Best Wishes

In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, “Feel Bad About Yourself.

Cute, Baby, Reading

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.55, Penguin

Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says, you know, I’m going over to see a boy who is having a nervous breakdown, a boy whose connection to the sense of sight itself is tenuous, and gosh dang it, I am going to wear a dress for him.

Girl, Boys, Thinking

"The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I wanted it to be just me and just him.

Dad, Oxygen, Raised

I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.

Girlfriend, Jobs, Thinking

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

I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting.

Lying, Mean, People

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.30, Penguin

Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually motivated by altruism or a desire to hook up or a search for answers or what. I always get annoyed when in books or movies characters want clear things for clear reasons, because my experience of humanness is that I always want messy things for messy reasons.

Book, Character, Thinking

And I don't really have anyone upon whom I want to rain down my wrath," I said, because in truth I didn't. I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies. Example: Historically, Germany has had more enemies than Luxembourg, Margo Roth Spiegelman was Germany. And Great Britain. And the United States. And czarist Russia. Me, I'm Luxembourg. Just sitting around, tending sheep, and yodeling.

Rain, Russia, Sheep

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.59, A&C Black

Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!

Book, Missing, Grace

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.38, Penguin

To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman. And I had done many of the things she might have done: I had engineered a most unlikely prom coupling. I had quieted the hounds of caste warfare. I had come to feel comfortable inside the rat-infested haunted house where she did her best thinking. I had seen. I had listened. But I could not yet become the wounded person.

Thinking, House, Warfare

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.226, A&C Black

...all I have to do is stay in between the lines and make sure that no one is too close to me and I am not too close to anyone and keep leaving. Maybe it felt like this for her, too, but I could never feel like this alone.

Leaving, Lines, Feels

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.262, A&C Black

feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.

Feelings, Firsts, Excitement

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.30, Penguin

Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’s like to be dying, and (b) not have died.

Dying, Peter, Vans

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.225, Penguin

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.

People, Towns, Nasty

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.46, A&C Black

Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist. “Not cold so much as underoxygenated,” I said. “I love it when you talk medical to me,” he said. He stood, and pulled me up with him, and did not let go of my hand until we reached the stairs.

Letting Go, Hands, Medical

"The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. So I looked him over and soon it was a staring contest. After a while the boy smiled, and then finally his blue eyes glanced away. When he looked back at me, I flicked my eyebrows up to say, I win. He shrugged

Eye, Winning, Boys

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

Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year-olds working ninety hours a week to deliver you that kind of top-quality witticism? There are boy bands with more original material.

Boys, Eight, Years

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.51, Penguin

If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you’re into it.” “Withholding judgment! When can I see you?” “Certainly not until you finish An Imperial Affliction.” I enjoyed being coy. “Then I’d better hang up and start reading.” “You’d better,” I said, and the line clicked dead without another word. Flirting was new to me, but I liked it.

Reading, Eye, Flirting

"The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?” “Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellectual capacities, make up a letter from Peter Van Houten featuring phrases like ‘our triumphantly digitized contemporaneity’?” “You could not,” I allowed. “Can I, can I have the email address?” “Of course,” Augustus said, like it was not the best gift ever.

Grace, Intellectual, Email

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.69, Penguin

Hazel GRACE!” he shouted. “You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.” “Also Epcot Center,” I mumbled. “Oh, my God,” Augustus said. “I can’t believe I have a crush on a girl with such cliché wishes.

Crush, Girl, Believe

We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down onto the couch and sneaked a kiss onto my cheek. “Augustus!” I said. “Friendly,” he said. He pushed himself up again and really stood this time, then took two steps over to my mom and said, “Always a pleasure to see you,” and my mom opened her arms to hug him, whereupon Augustus leaned in and kissed my mom on the cheek. He turned back to me. “See?” he asked.

Mom, Kissing, Two

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.76, Penguin

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