John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
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.
two verbs matter
The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.
giving-up real doors
It always happened like this: he would look and look for the keys to Satan’s Hearse and then finally he’d just give up and say, “Fine. I’ll take the fugging bus,” and on his way out the door, he’d see the keys. Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus; Katherines appear when you start to disbelieve the world contains another Katherine; and, sure enough, the Eureka moment arrived just as he began to accept it would never come.
distance glasses myopia
Colin Singleton’s distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
hurt brain
All hurt is brain hurt.
ninja
The true ninja doesn't make a splash at all.
adventure tables middle
And I put the latte down on a table, awash in the happy middle of my greatest adventure.
self way imagine
It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.
eye robots isaac
Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes.
beautiful dad gus
Dad had a sign of his own. MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, it read, and then underneath that (AND GUS).
mom dad wish
Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds out that I did hear. She said, "I won't be a mom anymore." It gutted me pretty badly.
teenager father voice
They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father.