John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
pain thinking joy
I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone.
pain joy without-pain
Without pain, we couldn't know joy.
baby sadness joy
You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.
rising-up joy looks
It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I just looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed and turned away, placing the side of his head against the window.
sadness joy illness
The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.
pain joy broccoli
Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?
cities people towns
I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met.
fun sadness gone
The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.
smoking too-much cheetahs
I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
bit good quality strange stuff
It does have a kind of byzantine quality to it. There is a good bit of strange stuff going on.
answers divinity found minister notion offered others people questions quickly school suffer
I was enrolled in divinity school and thought I was going to become a minister - I'm Episcopalian - but I was disavowed of that notion pretty quickly while working at the hospital. I found myself really unfulfilled by the answers that are traditionally offered to questions of why some people suffer and why others suffer so little.
birthday loves party wrapped
We had a party, a Father's Day party, going-away party and daughter's birthday party all wrapped up in one, ... He was great; the thing of it is he loves kids.
best hard smaller surely tax
Those big things are hard to do under the best of circumstances. Surely there are smaller things he can do, such as with the tax code.
among higher hispanic voter
There's higher voter turnout among Hispanic evangelicals than among Hispanics in general.