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Language buries, but does not resurrect.
John Green
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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world.
John Green
I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.
John Green
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
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
It seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box, that the unobserved is both there and not.
John Green
The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.
John Green
She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes.
John Green
You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.
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Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.
John Green
Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else...But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists.
John Green
I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.” - Takumi
John Green
As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.
John Green
I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken.
John Green
Anyway, that was the last good day I had with Gus until the Last Good Day.
John Green
I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.
John Green
When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone.
John Green
Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
John Green
At least it was instant. At least there wasn't any pain. I knew he was only trying to help, but he didn't get it. There was pain. A dul endless pain in my gut that wouldn't go away even when I knelt on the stingingly frozen tile of the bathroom, dry-heaving.
John Green
memories fall apart too.
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
