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You are fairly smart, I said after a while. You are fairly good at compliments, he answered.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be... but God clearly says, those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.
John Green
me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good....Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?
John Green
When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.
John Green
It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.
John Green
my lungs sucked at being lungs.
John Green
the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate
John Green
That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.
John Green
Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.
John Green
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
People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.
John Green
Random questions are the least random of all questions.
John Green
Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.
John Green
I think forever is an incorrect concept.
John Green
They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.
John Green
Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.
John Green
It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.
John Green
I can't imagine us saying these things to each other out loud. But even if I can't imagine hearing these words, I can imagine living them. I don't even picture it. Instead I'm in it. How I would feel with him here. That peace. It would be so happy, and it makes me sad because it only exists in words.
John Green
We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?
John Green
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
Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memories—would anyone, anyone, love me?
John Green
