Top 100 John Green Quotes
#1. I spent your Wish on that doucheface," I said into his chest.
"Hazel Grace. No. I will grant you that you did spend my one and only Wish, but you did not spend it on him. You spent it on us.
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#2. Pageboy haircut, and I hadn't even bothered to, like, brush it. Furthermore,
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#3. I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.
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#4. A small olive-skinned creature who had hit puberty but never hit it very hard, Ben had been my best friend since fifth grade, when we both finally owned up to the fact that neither of us was likely to attract anyone else as a best friend.
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#5. ... God, it's over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people's problems and get some of your own.
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#6. The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether [Catholic voters] will become increasingly conservative, or .. stay swing voters.
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#7. I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.
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#8. No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression?
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#9. Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.
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#10. The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more.
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#11. You're too busy being you that you don't realize how utterly unprecedented you are.
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#12. You don't get to choose if get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have a say in who hurts you.
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#13. That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.
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#14. What the hell is in swan saliva that burns so badly?
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#15. Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it to do great things in us & through us, because suffering is fertile ... it an grow new life.
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#16. But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about.
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#18. He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.
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#19. On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are.
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#20. The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire! Hell is in your future if you give in to desire!
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#21. We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.
I do, Augustus.
I do.
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#22. He'll eat you alive, shit you out and then piss on his dump.
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#23. Well, I think you're cool, and I want you to think I'm cool, and that's all popular is.
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#24. I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in.
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#25. I don't want to hear another negative word about cheerleaders. If it weren't for cheerleaders, who would tell us when and how to be happy during athletic events? If it weren't for cheerleaders, how would America's prettiest girls get the exercise that's so vital to a healthy life?
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#27. You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real.
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#28. Can I ask you about Caroline Mathers?"
"And you say there's no afterlife.
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#29. Given the entertainment bacchanalia at the disposal of young men and women of your generation, I am grateful to anyone anywhere who sets aside the hours necessary to read my little book.
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#30. A bit behind you, my dad added, and Mom laughed. Anyway, I knew it was stupid, but I felt kind of bad for scrambled eggs. After they finished eating, Dad did the dishes and walked us to the
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#31. Hassan Harbish. Sunni Muslim. Not a terrorist.
Lindsey Lee Wells. Methodist. Me, neither.
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#32. This is what I love about novels, both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss, to be with you
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#33. A woman so strong she burns heaven and drenches hell. Alaska would have liked this Rabe'a woman.
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#34. There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.
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#35. Teenagers are extremely funny, and extremely clever and intellectually curious. But they're also willing to ask questions about the meaning of life without disguising them around irony, and ask questions about what are our responsibilities to other people without having to couch it in irony.
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#36. Keep your shit together, I whispered to my lungs.
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#37. Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes.
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#38. What's that?"
"The laundry basket?"
"No, next to it."
"I don't see anything next to it."
"It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small.
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#40. So, yeah, I go into a porn shop looking for Isaac and I get another Will Grayson instead. God, you're one nasty fucker.
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#41. I leaned in toward her, suddenly overwhelmed with the feeling that we must kiss.
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#42. Sometimes you loose a battle. But mischief always wins a war.
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#43. She will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and everyone but herself and her mom in those last moments she spent as a person.
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#44. I can't remember, because I never knew.
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#45. Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway
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#46. We have bottled the stars this evening, my young friends.
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#47. We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad.
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#48. I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural.
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#49. Dad had a sign of his own. MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, it read, and then underneath that (AND GUS).
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#50. And i was left to ask "Did i help towards a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did i just assist in your wilful self destruction".
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#51. My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster.
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#52. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.
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#53. Listen, douchepants," I said, "you're not going to tell me anything about disease I don't already know. I need one and only one thing from you before I walk out of your life forever: WHAT HAPPENS TO ANNA'S MOTHER?
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#54. Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.
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#55. Our City has a rich history, even though many tourists are only wanting to see the Red Light District. Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most peopke find sin. - taxi driver
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#56. High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most.
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#57. Your lack of ambitious is truly remarkable.
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#58. I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is
the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.
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#59. You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to.
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#60. I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.
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#61. I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.
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#62. She never liked me much, but she sure loved me
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#63. The labyrinth sucks, but I choose it
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#64. Margo was not a miracle.She was not an adventure.She was not a fine and precious thing.She was just a girl.
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#65. I realise that you are, like, bursting with a constant need to rub yourself up against girl flesh or whatever, but can you just try to talk about it a little less in front of me
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#66. Paper Towns for a Paper Girl, who wants to think and read clearly
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#67. It's only forever...
Not long at all.
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#68. So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry.
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#69. While the world wasn't build for the humans, we were built for the world
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#70. I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.
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#71. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy.
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#72. I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I don't think it's oh so hard to walk four miles in the snow. I want that. I love that.
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#73. I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to see his parents sink to their knees in the dew-wet grass and moan in pain ...
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#74. We never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think think that we are invincible because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestation.
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#76. To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved.
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#77. From the front Rdar announces, "Don't you go talking bad about GoFast bars. Do you want me to stop this car?"
"Whenever I eat a GoFast bar," Ben says, "I'm always like, 'So this is what blood tastes like to mosquitoes.
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#78. The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available.
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#79. Great books help you understand, and they help you to feel understood.
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#80. My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces. It signified that I trusted them, that I was myself in front of them.
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#81. NOTHING HAS EVER LOOKED LIKE THAT EVER IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY,
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#82. The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.
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#84. But you keep the promise anyway. That's What love is. Keeping the promise anyway
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#85. There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.
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#86. She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every endeavor.
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#87. You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.
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#88. Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors intend. The job of reading is to see into other people as we see ourselves.
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#89. You should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as happy ending. There is so much to lose.
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#90. Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt
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#91. COOSA LIQUORS: WE CATER TO YOUR SPIRITUAL NEEDS.
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#92. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, taste like love without the fear of love's dissolution, and as we came to the 90-degree curve Sunrise Avenue takes before heading straight downtown, I could almost taste them.
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#93. How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?
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#94. I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile.
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#95. You can't just make me different, and the leave. Because I was fine before.
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#96. I believe in hope, in what is something called "radical hope." I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that's why I write fiction, probaby. It's my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r
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#97. Ya'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
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#98. How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?
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#99. For so long, I hadn't really heard Margo - I'd seen her screaming and thought her laughing - that now I figured it was my job. To try, even at this great remove, to hear the opera of her.
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#100. I said nothing - I hadn't known Marya, and anyway, "listening quietly" was my general social strategy
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