Quote

I don't know why boys expect us to like boy movies. We don't expect them to like girl movies.

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
Expect
Movies
Boys
Girl
Like

More quotes by John Green

Image
But mothers lie. It's in the job description.
John Green
Image
No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.
John Green
Image
the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate
John Green
Image
I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.
John Green
Image
You live for pretentious metaphors.
John Green
Image
Writing does not resurrect. It buries.
John Green
Image
We fell. We got up. We ran.
John Green
Image
The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic
John Green
Image
It is so hard to leave-until you leave.
John Green
Image
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.
John Green
Image
I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.
John Green
Image
My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves.
John Green
Image
There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.
John Green
Image
I spy with my little eye a great story.
John Green
Image
It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.
John Green
Image
Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
John Green
Image
Also, it was a bit hopeless, he said. A bit defeatist. If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree. I don't think defeatism is honest, Dad answered. I refuse to accept that.
John Green
Image
For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.
John Green
Image
That's absolutely true, about the eight glasses a day. There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water. Most experts agree that unless there's something horribly wrong with you, you should just drink water whenever you're - get this - thirsty.
John Green
Image
Beware of that monster called 'self-loathing'.
John Green