John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
real roots feel-good
Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.
roots dating would-be
dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.
roots long alive
Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.
roots leaves-of-grass imagine
I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.'
mean roots long
But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.
roots broken guy
I have never really thought of him as a person, either.... A guy whose strings were broken, who didn’t feel the root of his leaves of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Like me.
among higher hispanic voter
There's higher voter turnout among Hispanic evangelicals than among Hispanics in general.
adult authors desire follow readers relationship teenage whose work
Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.
candidate despite lost stronger terms
Sawyer lost despite being the stronger candidate in terms of experience.
broadcast emotions held personal registered took
She took it in, and I could tell it really registered with her. But she held her personal emotions to get the broadcast on the air.
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.
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.