Quote

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

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
Thinking
Agree
Accept
Accepting
Defeatist
Honest
Defeatism
Bits
Answered
Also
Hopeless
Mean
Refuse
Think
Dad

More quotes by John Green

Image
We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.
John Green
Image
So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry.
John Green
Image
You live for pretentious metaphors.
John Green
Image
…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.
John Green
Image
And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long.
John Green
Image
Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will, she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. Yeah, that's true, I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
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
I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance.
John Green
Image
Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus.
John Green
Image
. . . Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.
John Green
Image
A paper town for a paper girl.
John Green
Image
Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.
John Green
Image
They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.
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
The minister said, “Let us pray,” but as everyone else bowed their head, I could only stare slack-jawed at the sight of Peter Van Houten. After a moment, he whispered, “We gotta fake pray,” and bowed his head.
John Green
Image
I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.
John Green
Image
There's not even real *popularity* at my school. That, Coli said emphatically, is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.
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
We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love.
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