Quote

She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.

John Green

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
Author
Businessperson
Critic
Editor
Film Producer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Podcaster
Singer
Indianapolis
Indiana
John Michael Green
Thought
Need
Needs
Cute
Like
Treats
Ten
Mom
Already
Girl

More quotes by John Green

Image
It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.
John Green
Image
But monotony doesn't make for painlessness.
John Green
Image
At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.
John Green
Image
In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.
John Green
Image
Miles, as in 'to go before I sleep'?
John Green
Image
Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.
John Green
Image
But I could always tell in her eyes if she got really pissed at me, and her eyes were still pretty smiley
John Green
Image
Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.
John Green
Image
Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it.
John Green
Image
Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime.
John Green
Image
What matters to you defines your mattering.
John Green
Image
Pudge, my friend, we are indefuckingstructible.
John Green
Image
But in AIA, Anna decides that being a person with cancer who starts a cancer charity is a bit narcissistic, so she starts a charity called The Anna Foundation for People with cancer Who Want to Cure Cholera.
John Green
Image
I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile.
John Green
Image
I can't imagine us saying these things to each other out loud. But even if I can't imagine hearing these words, I can imagine living them. I don't even picture it. Instead I'm in it. How I would feel with him here. That peace. It would be so happy, and it makes me sad because it only exists in words.
John Green
Image
We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
John Green
Image
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
John Green
Image
Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.
John Green
Image
And we'll call you... hmmm. Pudge. Huh? Pudge, the Colonel said. Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right.
John Green
Image
I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.
John Green