Top 81 Good John Green Quotes
#1. The surprising thing is that so many teenage cancer novels are very good. John Green's 'The Fault in Our Stars,' recently published by Penguin, was voted 'Time Magazine's book of the year in 2012 ahead of Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith.
Mal Peet
#2. The secret of leaving, the secret I have only just now learned: leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. - Quentin
John Green
#3. Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.
John Green
#5. I don't think God gives a shit if we have a dog or if a woman wears shorts. I think He gives a shit whether you're a good person.
John Green
#6. There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another good day.
John Green
#7. For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?
John Steinbeck
#8. Home is Where the Heart Is, Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget. True Love is Born from Hard Times.
John Green
#10. I think God is such a good idea that if God didn't exist, we'd have to invent God.
John Green
#11. Good books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
John Green
#12. Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget.
John Green
#13. Anyway, that was the last good day I had with Gus until the Last Good Day.
John Green
#15. I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be ... but God clearly says, those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.
John Green
#16. But pizza was originally Italian, although, Italian pizza doesn't taste much like this because this pizza is fortified with sodium. Which is a mineral ... or a vitamin. All I know is that it's good for you.
John Green
#17. Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good - and amazingly underutilized - resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.
John Green
#18. Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus squeezed my hand. It is a good life, Hazel Grace.
John Green
#19. A drink this good deserves one's best posture.
John Green
#20. While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.
John Green
#21. He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.
John Green
#22. We just did an awesome job of not dying.
John Green
#23. At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.
John Green
#24. I am never going to get better at being a good person. I am always going to be the blood and shit of things.
John Green
#25. That's like promise.At least for tonight.In sickness,in health.In good times and in bad.For richer,for poorer.Till dawn do us apart.
John Green
#26. I promise you that it will be okay," the Duke said, her voice measured, quiet.
"You're good at that," I said. "At, like, saying crazy things in a way that makes me believe them.
John Green
#27. People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.
John Green
#28. When was the last good kiss you had?
John Green
#29. I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them
the bad kids and the good kids and all kids
as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.
John Green
#30. I know it's impossible for you to see peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them - the bad kids and the good kids and all kids - as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for. Varying degrees of sick, varying degrees of neurotic, varying degrees of self- actualized.
John Green
#31. There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.
John Green
#32. Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous. (pg. 18)
John Green
#33. You are fairly smart," I said after a while.
"You are fairly good at compliments," he answered.
John Green
#34. Like, I'm lazy, but I'm also good at not-doing things I'm not supposed to do ... Being funny is a way of not-doing. Sit around and make jokes and be Mr. Funny pants and just make fun of everyone else's attempts to do something.
John Green
#35. And it occurred to Colin that the kiss didn't feel nearly as good as the sound of her asking him if he wanted to be her boyfriend.
John Green
#36. If I go out there now, I'll freeze my balls off. Not that I'm putting them to any good use whatsoever, but I still like to have them, just in case.
John Green
#37. Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries all about. Where I may read at all my ease both of the new and old, For a jolly good book whereon to look is better to me than gold
John Wilson
#38. His goofy grin. I watched my own screen through squinted eyes as the mountain grew with the bodies of Persians and Spartans. When the Persians finally overran the Spartans, I looked over at Augustus again. Even though the good guys had just lost, Augustus seemed downright
John Green
#40. Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.
John Green
#41. And then I stopped. I cut the whiny voice off midsentence. Because I was sick of it, and it wasn't doing me any good, and anyway, shouldn't I have some say over the endless thoughts running through my head
John Green
#42. You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.
John Green
#43. Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.
John Green
#44. When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff.' Which is not a good insult at all, like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience.
John Green
#45. She was nothing but good and I was nothing but bad, but then she died, and I didn't.
John Green
#46. The longer I do my job," he said, "the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel." "That is really lovely," my
John Green
#47. Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.
John Green
#48. It's the eternal struggle, Pudge. The Good versus the Naughty.
John Green
#49. The silence broke:"Sometimes I liked it", I said "Sometimes I liked it that she was dead."
"You mean it felt good?"
"No. I don't know. It felt ... pure.
John Green
#50. Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.
John Green
#51. Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.
John Green
#52. Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music. We
John Green
#53. Humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel. - Daddy Jacobsen
John Green
#54. The real heroes of the Wish Factory are the young men and women who wait like Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot and good Christian girls wait for marriage.
John Green
#55. Because Margo knows the secret of leaving, the secret I have only just now learned: leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out y the roots. But you can't do that until your life grown roots.
John Green
#56. The problem, of course, is that there's no way of knowing that your last good day is your Last Good Day. At the time, it's just another good day.
John Green
#57. Nothing really good will ever happen to me if I stay in Gutshot; and maybe that's true. But nothing really bad will ever happen, either, and I'll take that bargain any day.
John Green
#58. Leaving feels too good, once you leave.
John Green
#59. 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.
John Green
#60. I picked you. And then you picked me back. And that's like a promise.
At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer, 'Til dawn do us part.
John Green
#61. Books are a weird collaboration between author and reader: You trust me to tell a good story, and I trust you to bring it to good life in your mind.
John Green
#62. I thought: This is not good.
I though: I am not bad at kissing. Not at bad at all.
I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe.
John Green
#63. All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.
John Green
#64. Say your life broke down. The last good kiss/ you had was years ago.
John Green
#65. Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.
John Green
#66. The humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show them how we feel.
John Green
#67. If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know?
John Green
#68. Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.
John Green
#69. The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness:
'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.
John Green
#70. I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.
Alvin Lee
#71. The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children.
John Green
#72. I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.
John Green
#73. This is the rough part, okay? so just stay tuned for the good part. i promise it'll come soon.
John Green
#74. It's all good, Hazel Grace. But just be clear, when I thought I saw Caroline Mathers' ghost in support group, I was not entirely happy. I was staring, but I wasn't yearning, if you know what I mean.
John Green
#75. Van Houten, I'm a good person but a shitty writer. you're a shitty person but a good writer.
John Green
#76. Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal.
John Green
#77. 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.
John Green
#78. I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.
John Green
#79. it runs afoul of what i call the birdshit rule. you know, how people say it's good luck if a bird shits on you? and people believe it! i just want to grab them and say, 'dude, don't you realize this whole superstition was made up
John Green
#80. Ben's tongue is like sunscreen ... It's good for your health and should be applied liberally.
John Green
#81. your life broke down. The last good kiss / You
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