John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
school simple people
It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you are wrong, and all the nuances you failed to account for, and all the truths that turned out to be not as simple as you once believed. And it seems to me that one of the central pleasures of attending school is that you get to read with really well-informed people who can help welcome you into a complex world stuffed with rich and maddening ambiguity.
i-hate-you people leaving
It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.
real hero vaccines
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.
dream ambition done
...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.
love fighting worry
I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.
life giving-up mean
I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.
thinking missing pieces
I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
looks goofy infinite
I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.
hurt book thinking
I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay? "I'm going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? I'm fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while.
art philosophy sick
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
war leaving world
Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.
life pain real
Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.
writing doe
Writing does not resurrect. It buries.
people lord
In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." (p. 28)