John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
book writing years
In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.
broken disappear decided
Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.
circles drawing boredom
I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.
mirrors window
A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window.
hate father passion
I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.
pain suffering new-life
Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it to do great things in us & through us, because suffering is fertile... it an grow new life.
jesus blessed degrees
The Degree to which I am blessed staggers me... the degree to which I take that for granted shames me. -Streetwalking with Jesus
sarcastic fall winter
The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.
humility hard-work class
I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be... but God clearly says, "those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.
men may desperation
All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of "learned helplessness" without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of "learned blindness" ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor.
wine kissing taught
She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.
fall thinking years
In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.
people
How can you seperate those things though? The people are the place is the people.
black racist shirts
Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt