Quote

By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.

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
Term
Fall
Care
Falls
Together
Apart
Way
Terms
World
Stay
Saying
Small

More quotes by John Green

Image
I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting.
John Green
Image
All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.
John Green
Image
The last time I was this scared, I peed myself. The last time I was this scared, Radar says, I actually had to face a Dark Lord in order to make the world safe for wizards.
John Green
Image
How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.' 'Awesome, yeah,' Gus said. 'Not to one-up you or anything, but my body is made out of cancer.' 'So I heard,' Issac said, trying not to let it get to him. He fumbled toward Gus's hand and found only his thigh. 'I'm taken,' Gus said.
John Green
Image
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
John Green
Image
But it is a pipe. No, it's not, I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.
John Green
Image
It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.
John Green
Image
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
John Green
Image
Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
John Green
Image
In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.
John Green
Image
Something invisible snapped inside her.
John Green
Image
Is the labyrinth living or dying?
John Green
Image
That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.
John Green
Image
I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed to learn it: How. Why. When. Where. What.
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
Everybody was so kind. Strong, too. In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life. Quick, give me a throw pillow and some thread because that needs to be an Encouragement.
John Green
Image
I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.
John Green
Image
but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.
John Green
Image
Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.
John Green
Image
I have an Augustus Waters fetish.
John Green