John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
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
jobs reading people
The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves
failing strategy bad-life
Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy.
light shadow lace
The light filtered throught the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow.
want appreciated single-person
what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it’s like to work so hard to make sure everyone’s happy, and to have not a single person recognize it
people sometimes easy
sometimes it's okay to cheat on things - but don't ever cheat on people. because once you start, it's very hard to stop. you find out how easy it is to do.
upset
Why is it upset? Shouldn't it be downset?
news great-news bad-news
Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else
scared action impulsive
So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.
mom medication audience
moms aren’t the best audience for medication humor.
memories fall falling-apart
memories fall apart too.
answers
the point is that there are always answers.