John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
hipster people house
All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.
couple years names
I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if we got organized, and assigned a certain number of corpses to each living person, would there be enough living people to remember all the dead people?" "And are there?" "Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about
people listening trying
You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.
believe love-is people
Always' was a promise! How can you just break the promise?" "Sometimes people don't always understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. Isaac shot me a look. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?" I didn't answer. I didn't have an answer. But I thought that if true love did exist, that was a pretty good definition of it.
people adore
We all romanticize the people we adore.
tears cry abundance
Crying is you, plus tears
lovely strange
How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.
goodbye ideas might
Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
pain joy broccoli
Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?
want matter
I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.
real teenager emotional
I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now.
smart may late
You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.
life romantic special
You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.
school simple people
It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you are wrong, and all the nuances you failed to account for, and all the truths that turned out to be not as simple as you once believed. And it seems to me that one of the central pleasures of attending school is that you get to read with really well-informed people who can help welcome you into a complex world stuffed with rich and maddening ambiguity.