John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
parent faces pleasure
My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces. It signified that I trusted them, that I was myself in front of them.
worry useless worried
Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway
america encounters do-you-know
Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans." "But you are an American." "Incurably so, it seems.
alaska said brake
No," I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator.
two people three
And it was just the three of us - three bodies and two people - the three who knew what had happened and too many layers between all of us too much keeping us from one another.
knowing alaska pranks
She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.
real done happens
Breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; its something that happens with you.
water world computer
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause
hurt real thinking
I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around.
wanted persons
I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.
giving mouths killing
He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.
past eight light
The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.
cancer book kids
Throughout the book, she refers to herself as "the side effect," which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible.
lasts last-words knows
I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.