Quote

I choose the labyrinth.

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
Labyrinth
Choose

More quotes by John Green

Image
He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.
John Green
Image
I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.
John Green
Image
I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy
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
There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water
John Green
Image
What's the meaning of life? Other people.
John Green
Image
Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die?
John Green
Image
Why is it upset? Shouldn't it be downset?
John Green
Image
Writing does not resurrect. It buries.
John Green
Image
I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think.
John Green
Image
How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.
John Green
Image
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
John Green
Image
Caroline is no longer sufffering from personhood.
John Green
Image
He responded a few minutes later. Okay. I wrote back. Okay. He responded: Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!
John Green
Image
Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.
John Green
Image
You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
John Green
Image
I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.
John Green
Image
I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
John Green
Image
He wasn't perfect or anything. He wasnt your fairytale prince charming or whatever. He tried to be like that sometimes,but i liked him best when that stuff fell away.
John Green
Image
I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be... but God clearly says, those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.
John Green