Quote

Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is used to cut diamonds.

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
Idea
Used
Hypothetical
Ideas
Prom
Hard
Diamonds
Diamond
Date
Cutting
Getting

More quotes by John Green

Image
I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.
John Green
Image
I know what happens a the end of falling-landing.
John Green
Image
But monotony doesn't make for painlessness.
John Green
Image
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
Image
How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?
John Green
Image
When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.
John Green
Image
The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.
John Green
Image
... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.
John Green
Image
She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.
John Green
Image
They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.
John Green
Image
the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate
John Green
Image
The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not.
John Green
Image
I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, God we must look so lame, but it doesn't matter much when you have just now realized, all the time later, that you are still alive.
John Green
Image
After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.
John Green
Image
Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus.
John Green
Image
Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.
John Green
Image
It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.
John Green
Image
In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.
John Green
Image
Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.
John Green
Image
You are fairly smart, I said after a while. You are fairly good at compliments, he answered.
John Green