John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
sky want stories
But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.
matter things-that-matter
You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.
squirrels enemy benches
This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch me—oh, god!
stars crosses
Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of the stars to cross...
night waiting want
I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.
monotony
But monotony doesn't make for painlessness.
looking-forward hard knows
i know he's been looking forward to this--and i know that i've been looking forward to this. but now i have to stop looking forward and start looking at where i am. it's hard.
weekend past ideas
I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.
enjoy noticing
The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing.
secret special suspicion
I always had this secret suspicion that I was special.
pain going-away trying
At least it was instant. At least there wasn't any pain." I knew he was only trying to help, but he didn't get it. There was pain. A dul endless pain in my gut that wouldn't go away even when I knelt on the stingingly frozen tile of the bathroom, dry-heaving.
cancer mean blind
Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC. NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few seconds later. I mean, he's blind. So that's unfortunate.
died
She was nothing but good and I was nothing but bad, but then she died, and I didn't.
She never liked me much, but she sure loved me