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I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.
John Green
This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.
John Green
How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.
John Green
You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was.
John Green
There's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.
John Green
Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.
John Green
And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long.
John Green
I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
John Green
Wait, wait. I don't get it.' 'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells.
John Green
Headline? he asked. 'Swing Set Needs Home,' I said. 'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,' he said. 'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,' I said.
John Green
Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.
John Green
The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.
John Green
Random questions are the least random of all questions.
John Green
All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.
John Green
I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.
John Green
That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.
John Green
The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.
John Green
If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.
John Green
I didn't even know what the feeling was, really, just that there was a lot of it.
John Green
He took a long drink, then grimaced. “I do not have a drinking problem,” he announced, his voice needlessly loud. “I have a Churchillian relationship with alcohol: I can crack jokes and govern England and do anything I want to do. Except not drink.
John Green
