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John Green Quotes about Lying

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I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was

I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

Love, Dream, Lying

"Looking for Alaska". Book by John Green, 2005.

We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it down because it threatens the overall quality and breadth of American literature.

Lying, Book, Soul

"John Green: why I'll never self-publish" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2013.

Grief does not change you. It reveals you. And herein lies the gift that cannot die. It changes the course of your life forever. If you allow yourself the chance to feel it for as long as you need to - even if it is for the rest of your life - you will be guided by it. You will become someone it would have been impossible for you to be, and in this way your loved one lives on, in you

Lying, Grief, Long

Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.

Hurt, Lying, Dirty

John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.249, Penguin

Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my sentimentality. For me at least, fiction is the only way I can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

Memories, Lying, Writing

The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?

Lying, Boys, Simple

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.181, Penguin

You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.

Beautiful, Lying, Arguing

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.145, Penguin

So I wasn't lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths.

Lying

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

Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?

Mom, Mother, Lying

Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down

Lying, Done, Baths

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.13, Penguin

...But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

Christian, Buddhist, Lying

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.67, 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

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

No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression?

Lying, Covenant, Sacred

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.55, Penguin

You couldn't be more wrong," I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it." "You're a hard person to comfort," Augustus said. "Easy comfort isn't comforting," I said.

Beautiful, Lying, Parent

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.99, Penguin UK

Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication.

Being Yourself, Teenager, Lying

"Crash Course in Community Building and Content Creation". Interview with Heike Young, www.marketingcloud.com. October 6, 2014.

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