John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
kissing rejection asking
The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.
ugly zits cabal
I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided.
dark men oblivion
I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.
mirrors looks knows
You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is.
losing holes i-realized
That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created.
men towns population
But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town.
girl moving guy
Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.
art struggle mean
What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?
one-day stories tape
That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.
people towns problem
You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.
home glasses ideas
You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home?" "No, sir," Gus said. "We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water.
chocolate doe way
the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate
smart hipster may
You may be smart, but I've been smart longer.
love-you tense present-tense
I love you present tense.