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John Green Quotes - Page 5

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That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

War, Cancer, Ends

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.37, Penguin

...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

Dream, Ambition, Done

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.305, Penguin

Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.

Children, Kids, Blow

Funerals...are for the living.

Funeral

Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortable as possible? What should a story seek to emulate, Augustus? A ringing alarm? A call to arms? A morphine drip? Of course, like all interrogation of the universe, this line of inquiry inevitably reduces us to asking what it means to be human and whether—to borrow a phrase from the angst-encumbered sixteeen-year-olds you no doubt revile—there is a point to it all.

Art, Struggle, Mean

How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?

Forever, World, Left Behind

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.125, Penguin

Don’t make stuff because you want to make money - it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous - because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people - and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts.

Hard Work, People, Want

Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don’t know who you are or what your name is or where you’re from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter’s real and you’re not.

Life, Real, Mean

We think that we are invincible because we are.

Hipster, Thinking, Invincible

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.203, Penguin

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.

Drinking, Talking, Years

My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves.

Moving, Fifty, Shade

March 4th, the only day that is also a sentence

March, Sentences

I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.

Hipster, Inspiration, Paper

John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.203, Bloomsbury Publishing

I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.

Believe, Labyrinth, Born

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.163, Penguin

I love being in cities with lots of other people, because I'm reminded that there are billions of people like me, and we are each stuck inside of our minds, feverishly trying to crawl out to make connections with other people.

Real, Love Is, Cities

It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings.

Morning, Eggs, Embarrassing

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.85, Penguin

She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die

People, Dead People, Dies

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

I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry

Girl, Dating, Not Interested

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.85, Penguin

Eternity bids thee to forget.

Forget, Eternity, Thee

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.279, Penguin

Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

Bullshit, Life Is, Markers

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.187, Penguin

You may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

Hipster, Smart, May

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.32, Penguin

You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is.

Mirrors, Looks, Knows

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.33, Penguin

I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided.

Ugly, Zits, Cabal

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

The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling.

Voice, Feelings, Important

Your friendship with her-it sleeps with the fishes.

Sleep, Fishes

John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.42, A&C Black

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