John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
real sunrise anticipation
When it works, anticipation is far more fulfilling than surprise, because we are reminded that a sunrise is precisely as magnificent as it is inevitable.
real giving important
We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are we going to live in a universe where important questions will always go unanswered?
real different whole-life
You can't just make me different and then leave. You can't. You can't change me and make my whole life centered around you, then leave.
short-life best-short youth
Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.
grief grieving
Grief doesn't change you. It reveals you.
beautiful towns imagine
Nothing really ever happens like you imagine it will.
teamwork space people
I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would agree that curiosity is not the most important human trait; the urge to collaborate is. Heck . . . only we have the ability to cooperate to make like online communities and space telescopes and imaginariums and movies. So the great thrill of this whole experience [my novel being made into a movie] for me was . .. .seeing humanity do what it's best at, which ultimately is not competing but cooperating.
graduation dream jobs
There are many more jobs out there than you have ever heard of. Your dream job might not yet exist. If you had told 'College Me' that I would become a professional YouTuber, I would've been like, "That is not a word, and it never should be."
graduation worry maintenance
Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes tremendous time and money to the maintenance of an invasive plant species called turf grass that we can't eat. I encourage you to choose better obsessions.
i-can smoke
This is it. I can't even not smoke anymore
movie romantic real-love
I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.
sleep taste mouths
That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep.
falling-in-love augustus more-time
i wanted more time so we could fall in love.
years two heaven
She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her social worker said I had to tell her. I had to tell her she would die, so I told her she was going to heaven. She asked if I would be there, and I said that I would not, not yet. But eventually, she said, and I promised that yes, of course, very soon. And I told her that in the meantime we had great family up there that would take care of her. And she asked me when I would be there, and I told her soon. Twenty-two years ago.