John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
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Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.
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Sawyer lost despite being the stronger candidate in terms of experience.
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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.
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There's higher voter turnout among Hispanic evangelicals than among Hispanics in general.
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It does have a kind of byzantine quality to it. There is a good bit of strange stuff going on.
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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.
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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.
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We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.
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I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's a real privilege to have a seat at the table in the lives of young people when they're figuring out what matters to them.