John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
dad oxygen wanted
I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I wanted it to be just me and just him.
want responsible
I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.
want ifs
I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.
want had-enough mystery
So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.
want towns kind
She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.
hard-work people want
Don’t make stuff because you want to make money - it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous - because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people - and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts.
want matter
I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.
want too-much way
The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have too much cliché wrapped around it.
real thinking want
Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such things is a valuable part of being a person.
found wanted
Maybe this time she wanted to be found, and to be found by me.
want looks augustus
I didn't want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus.
wanted persons
I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.
night waiting want
Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.
hated wanted careful
I hated being careful, too - or wanted to, at least.