John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
love-is trying heroism
In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.
thinking opposites forever
Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you, minus something. He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage.
dream grace murder
He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace...
breakup hurt want
And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.
heartbroken may abundance
Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.
teenager stupid hate
She did not need to fold into herself and self-destruct. Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. When adults say, "Teenagers think the hate invincible," with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.
hurt knows versions
Is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. It was more than that. I know it was more than that.
let-it-go want goes-on
I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.
pain
There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.
morning needs wake-up
Who would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you?
needs bases
Need is never a good basis for any relationship.
hurt pain attention
Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.
people dead-people dies
She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die
anger sadness reason
No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.