Quote

It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a while different person.

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
Like
Girl
Basically
Crankiness
Easy
Distance
Bossy
Someone
Amazing
Unattainable
Persons
Relationship
Frequent
Person
Started
Liking
Different
Food
Regular
Thing
Start
Stopped
Kind
Whatever
Weird

More quotes by John Green

Image
In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in relationship to the monotony of dumping: we have thirty-two teeth. After a while, having each tooth individually destroyed probably gets repetitive, even dull. But it never stops hurting.
John Green
Image
I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now.
John Green
Image
It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.
John Green
Image
The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.
John Green
Image
When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist.
John Green
Image
there is no best and no worst, ...those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is
John Green
Image
We're not going to break anything. Don't think of it as breaking in to SeaWorld. Think of it as visiting SeaWorld in the middle of the night for free.
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
...Kaitlyn never wore open-toed shoes on account of how she hated her feet because she felt her second toes were too long, as if the second toe was a window into the soul or something.
John Green
Image
I choose the labyrinth.
John Green
Image
There's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.
John Green
Image
But you want to see shapes you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.
John Green
Image
I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.
John Green
Image
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
John Green
Image
It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.
John Green
Image
I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds.
John Green
Image
Is the labyrinth living or dying?
John Green
Image
What's your name ? Hazel . No , your full name . Um , Hazel Grace Lancaster .
John Green
Image
Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.
John Green
Image
All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.
John Green