Quote

You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.

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
Even
Made
Plastic
Fake
Town
Towns
Paper
Enough
Hard

More quotes by John Green

Image
Love is just a shout in the void.
John Green
Image
I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type.
John Green
Image
No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.
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
I figured something out, he said aloud. The future is unpredictable. Hassan said, Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.
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
Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
John Green
Image
They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.
John Green
Image
We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.
John Green
Image
I'm not sure if I'm depressed. I mean, I'm not exactly sad. But I'm not exactly happy either. I can laugh and joke and smile during the day, But sometimes when I'm alone at night I forget how to feel.
John Green
Image
Colin had always preferred baths one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down
John Green
Image
One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.
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
Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous,...It is though.
John Green
Image
It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it you just think you do.
John Green
Image
Oh, my god, Augustus said. i can't believe i have a crush on a girl with such cliché wishes. i was thirteen, i said again, although of course i was only thinking crush crush crush crush crush. I was flattered but changed the subject immediately.
John Green
Image
If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.
John Green
Image
I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.
John Green
Image
Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.
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