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The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

John Green
Fathers Day, Dad, Fatherhood

What can we do?" Mom asked again. I shrugged. But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until I just kind of crawled across the couch into her lap and my dad came over and held my legs really tight and I wrapped my arms all the way around my mom's middle and they held on to me for hours while the tide rolled in.

John Green
Mom, Dad, Lap
John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.267, Penguin

'Cause I'm just - I want to go to Amsterdam, and I want him to tell me what happens after the book is over, and I just don't want my particular life, and also the sky is depressing me, and there is this old swing set out here that my dad made for me when I was a kid.' 'I must see this old swing set of tears immediately,' he said. 'I'll be over in twenty minutes.'

John Green
Depressing, Dad, Book
"The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green and Rodrigo Corral, January 10, 2012.

Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist." "If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree." "I don't think defeatism is honest, " Dad answered. "I refuse to accept that.

John Green
Dad, Mean, Thinking
John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.126, Penguin

Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

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

Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds out that I did hear. She said, "I won't be a mom anymore." It gutted me pretty badly.

John Green
Mom, Dad, Wish

Dad had a sign of his own. MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, it read, and then underneath that (AND GUS).

John Green
Beautiful, Dad, Gus
John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.126, Penguin

Sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad.

John Green
Dad, Real, Kissing
John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.209, Penguin

I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to see his parents sink to their knees in the dew-wet grass and moan in pain.

John Green
Pain, Dad, Parent
John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.274, 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.

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

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.

John Green
Dad, Oxygen, Raised

Gus: "It tastes like..." Me: "Food." Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this delicately...?" Me: "It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down around your canal-side dinner table." Gus: "Nicely phrased." Gus's father: "Our children are weird." My dad: "Nicely phrased."

John Green
Children, Dad, Father

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