John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
notebook girl believe
..there she is, and I am watching her through plexiglass, and she looks like Margo Roth Spiegelman, this girl I have known since I was two–this girl who was an idea that I loved. And it is only now, when she closes her notebook and places it inside a backpack next to her and then stands up and walks toward us, that I realize that the idea is not only wrong by dangerous. What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person.
girlfriend today terrorist
You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!
get-better trying ruins
It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.
fate self alaska
Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?
beautiful couple beer
He took a bite, swallowed. "God. If asparagus tasted like that all the time, I'd be vegetarian, too." Some people in a lacquered wooden boat approached us on the canal below. One of them, a woman with curly blond hair, maybe thirty, drank from a beer then raised her glass towards us and shouted something. "We don't speak Dutch," Gus shouted back. One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful.
responsibility grace way
I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said. "And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you," I said.
world remember worship
In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.
people miracle nerd
When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff.' Which is not a good insult at all, like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience.
should-have long lasts
Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.
fall cells together
Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.
worry worried bigger
...whatever you're worried about, you're bigger than the worries.
ideas people feelings
The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves or other people and we just say the truth. For ten minutes. And then we can go back to being lame.
regret useless permanent
My regret was immediate and permanent and useless.
men comfort cold
I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then I said that the statue was built not for Schultz, but for us--to remind us how to be human.