John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
girl hate mean
If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.
feelings listening psychological
It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.
nice interesting spend-time
...It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting.
freedom people amsterdam
...And in freedom, most people find sin.
worry now-and-then
Nothing to be gained by worrying between now and then.
good-friend impossible-to-forget hard
Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget.
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.