John Green Quotes - Page 41

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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.

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  Girl, Distance, Different

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• Augustus Waters," I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank House, and then thinking that Anne Frank, after all, kissed someone in the Anne Frank House, and that she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become a place where the young and irreparably broken sink into love.

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  Real, Home, Kissing

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.131, Penguin UK

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• It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?

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  Hate, Kids, Bullshit

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.278, Penguin

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• So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.

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  Couple, Team, Missing

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.107, Penguin

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• You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.

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  Beautiful, Lying, Arguing

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.145, Penguin

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• I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

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  Encouragement, Bullshit, Funeral

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.273, Penguin

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• You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.

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  Inspiring, Real, Long

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.272, Penguin

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• History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people have been making decisions that irrevocably shaped the world that we live in today; just as today, we are making subtle, irrevocable decisions that people of the future will remember as revolutions.

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  Years, People, Decision

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• I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up.

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  Character, Flaws, These Days

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• In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them.

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  Religious, Men, Historical

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.39, Penguin

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• The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals will frolic and fight. There will be no lord of the manor, which is not such a bad thing, because it seems to me that people have done a pretty poor job of guiding the biosphere for the last few thousand years.

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  Jobs, Fighting, Animal

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• Long week. Long month. Long life.

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  Long, Months, Week

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.161, Penguin

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• Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.” “My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s pause. “I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.” “Too soon,” Isaac said, cracking a smile. “Was that insensitive?” Augustus asked. “I can be pretty blind to other people’s feelings.

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  Dark, Men, People

  John Green (2008). “Paper Towns”, p.245, Penguin

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• Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom will still be her mom, just as my grandmother is still my grandmother even though she has died. As long as either person is still alive, that relationship survives. (It changes, but it survives.)

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  Mom, Mother, Real

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• I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!

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  Love, Life, Heart

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• The things I would do to that boy. I mean, not now that I know you're interested in him. But, oh, sweet holy Lord, I would ride that one-legged pony all the way around the corral." "Kaitlyn," I said. "Sorry. Do you think you'd have to be on top?" "Kaitlyn," I said.

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  Sweet, Sorry, Mean

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.94, Penguin

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• And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

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  Genius, Prodigies, Colin Singleton

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.91, Penguin

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• 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?

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  Grizzly Bears, Strategy, Grizzlies

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.156, Penguin

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• If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd just let myself be trampled to death by the Satan Pig.

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  Pigs, Speech, Lips

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.169, Penguin

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• The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.

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  Memories, Eye, Terrible

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.113, Penguin

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• It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I just looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed and turned away, placing the side of his head against the window.

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  Rising Up, Joy, Looks

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• We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim - as you will be - of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible.

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  Cancer, Water, Battle

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.266, Penguin

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• But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling, the waves tossing me against the rocks then pulling me back out to sea so they could launch me again into the jagged face of the cliff, leaving me floating faceup on the water, undrowned.

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  Rocks, Sea, Water

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.170, Penguin UK

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• 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.

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  Kissing, Anticipation, Moments

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.78, Penguin

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• You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

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  Baby, Sadness, Joy

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.103, Penguin

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