Quote

Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.

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
Spend
Choose
Lives
Moments
Hipster
Composed
Finite

More quotes by John Green

Image
Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.
John Green
Image
From the front Rdar announces, Don't you go talking bad about GoFast bars. Do you want me to stop this car? Whenever I eat a GoFast bar, Ben says, I'm always like, 'So this is what blood tastes like to mosquitoes.
John Green
Image
I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison.
John Green
Image
I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read.
John Green
Image
I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.
John Green
Image
Without pain, we couldn't know joy.
John Green
Image
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
John Green
Image
Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou
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
And I vaguely remember her smiling at me from the door way the glittering ambiguity of a girls smile, which seems to promise an answer to the question, but never gives it. The question, the one we’ve all been asking since girls stopped being gross, the question that is to simple to be uncomplicated: Does she like me or does she LIKE me?
John Green
Image
He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.
John Green
Image
He missed that, too, and it hadn't even happened.
John Green
Image
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
John Green
Image
The world is not a wish-granting factory.
John Green
Image
What can we do? Mom asked again. I shrugged. But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until I just kind of crawled across the couch into her lap and my dad came over and held my legs really tight and I wrapped my arms all the way around my mom's middle and they held on to me for hours while the tide rolled in.
John Green
Image
She never liked me much, but she sure loved me
John Green
Image
I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.
John Green
Image
You know what ambrosia tastes like? It tastes like all the things you can't eat on Weight Watchers. Cheeseburgers, sugar cookies, regular freaking ice cream instead of, like, ice cream that's made out of air and human hope.
John Green
Image
See, popularity is complicated. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about liking you have to really like being liked, and also sort like being disliked.
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