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
Finite
Spend
Choose
Lives
Moments
Hipster
Composed

More quotes by John Green

Image
Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.
John Green
Image
Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale,” I said.
John Green
Image
I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.
John Green
Image
Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?
John Green
Image
I'm not from Indianapolis, but I like living in Indianapolis. If I were to explain it, I'd tell someone to imagine a city that perfectly captures the best and the worst of America. Imagine the truly American city, because that's what it is.
John Green
Image
By the power of the superglue beer sword, I designate you my driver!
John Green
Image
That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.
John Green
Image
I hope we get pulled over, he says. I'd like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a Confederate T-shirt over a black dress.
John Green
Image
I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory - recalled only on the anniversary of her death, or maybe a couple of weeks after, remembering only after having forgotten.
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
So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her. I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.
John Green
Image
The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.
John Green
Image
If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
John Green
Image
To be human is to catch the falling person.
John Green
Image
You're awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted.
John Green
Image
Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.
John Green
Image
At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.
John Green
Image
I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.
John Green
Image
I am a giant squid of anger.
John Green
Image
The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.
John Green