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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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We gotta do something about this frigging swing set,' he said. 'I'm telling you, it's ninety percent of the problem.
John Green
That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.
John Green
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
John Green
If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!
John Green
Your responsibility is not to the people you're making the gift for, but the gift itself.
John Green
We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time
John Green
Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
John Green
Dying is the last thing I would EVER do!
John Green
A small olive-skinned creature who had hit puberty but never hit it very hard, Ben had been my best friend since fifth grade, when we both finally owned up to the fact that neither of us was likely to attract anyone else as a best friend.
John Green
I spy with my little eye a great story.
John Green
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
John Green
He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace.
John Green
It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.
John Green
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
That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence
John Green
Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus squeezed my hand. It is a good life, Hazel Grace.
John Green
It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.
John Green
Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.
John Green
That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.
John Green
My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.
John Green
