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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a while different person.
John Green
But it is a pipe. No, it's not, I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.
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
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
You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home? No, sir, Gus said. We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water.
John Green
We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone.
John Green
Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral, at Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of him, finally stopped his heart, which was also made of him.
John Green
You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.
John Green
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
And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.
John Green
There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
John Green
Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people.
John Green
Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die?
John Green
But monotony doesn't make for painlessness.
John Green
You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.
John Green
I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.
John Green
It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
John Green
Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.
John Green
I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.
John Green
You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean. I'll look it up. No. With Me. At my house. Now
John Green
