Top 100 John Green All Quotes

#1. I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.

John Green

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#2. Tiny and I are sitting with a table full of Drama People, and they are discussing Tiny Dancer, all of them speaking more words per minute than I speak in a day.

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#3. She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall.

John Green

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#4. It seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box, that the unobserved is both there and not.

John Green

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#5. Maybe all the strings inside him broke.

John Green

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#6. And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking.

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#7. Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die. -Alaska Young

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#8. I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.

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#9. Ninjas don't splash other ninjas," "The true ninja doesn't make a splash at all." I said.

John Green

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#10. Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

John Green

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#11. You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to. -Q

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#12. I think maybe I know why,' she finally said.
'Why?'
'Maybe all the strings inside him broke,' she said.

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#13. Dating, after all, only ends one way: poorly. If you think about it ... all romantic relationships end in either (1) breakup, (2) divorce, or (3) death.

John Green

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#14. And it was just the three of us - three bodies and two people - the three who knew what had happened and too many layers between all of us too much keeping us from one another.

John Green

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#15. Chip did not believe in having a sock drawer or a T-shirt drawer. He believed that all drawers were created equal and filled each with whatever fit. My mother would have died.

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#16. Maybe all the stings inside him broke.

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#17. The school felt more mine than in all my four years there.

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#18. Why do you smoke so damn fast?"
"Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

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#19. All roads led to her. She was the nexus of all connections his brain made - the wheel's hub

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#20. They looked for all the world like miniaturized rose petals drained of their color. These pale petals were gathering in the wind like flocking birds - thousands of them, like a spring snowstorm.

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#21. All writing is rewriting.

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#22. Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?

John Green

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#23. I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the job of reading is to divine authorial intent.

John Green

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#24. I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have.

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#25. I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken.

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#26. Rich tofu-eaters would move out to the country, buy a small farm that was going under anyway and then not know what to do with it. (See Green Acres and multiply by hundreds of thousands and both members Eva Gabor. But crossed with Karen Carpenter and take away all shreds of common sense.)

John Ringo

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#27. But, oh, sweet holy Lord, I would ride that one-legged pony all the way around the corral.

John Green

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#28. That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.

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#29. Their sneak-out was over. But by then it was too late. In his mind, Katherine I was already becoming Katherine XIX. She would soon retake the throne that, all along, had rightfully been hers.

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#30. Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we're still alone ... each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together.

John Green

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#31. It doesn't matter how long we've used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really, really awesome, whereas ebooks - at least so far - are fairly limited in their awesomeness.

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#32. The things that hurt us are often the things that help us, and the whole dichotomy between creation and destruction is totally false, I think. We live in a universe that seems committed to making and unmaking all that is possible, you know?

John Green

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#33. These little contradictions are in all of us. They're in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake for 30 hours and kept walking, grateful to be a little boat full of water, still floating.

John Green

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#34. She kisses like a sweet devouring, and I don't know where to touch her because I want all of her.

John Green

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#35. That doesn't sound like my Margo, she said, and I thought of my Margo, and all of us looking at her reflection in different funhouse mirrors.

John Green

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#36. Not your fault, Hazel Grace. We're all just side effects, right?" "'Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness,'" I said, quoting AIA.

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#37. There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.

John Green

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#38. Honestly, everything else aside, I like finding stuff out about her. I mean, that I didn't know before. I had no idea who she really was. I honestly never thought of her as anything but my crazy beautiful friend who does all the crazy beautiful things.

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#39. It is all odd at first, and then it becomes normal - not because
it is normal, but because repetition uns the peculiar.

John Green

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#40. We are not speaking gibberish. We're speaking the sacred language of the Qur'an, the language of great Calipha and Saladin, the most beautiful intricate of all human tongues. "
" Well it sounds like a Racoon clearing it's throat.

John Green

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#41. As he read, I feel in love the way you fall asleep: slow, and then all at once.

John Green

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#42. The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.

John Green

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#43. I felt so detached from all this shit, all this high-school-is-ending-So-we-have-to-reveal-that-deep-down-we-all-love-everybody bullshit.

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#44. All pain deserves to be felt

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#45. All salvation is temporary

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#46. Anyway, I learned an important lesson from all of this: While gun ownership is
morally reprehensible in the civilized world, firepower is more or less
de rigeur in a zombie apocalypse.

John Green

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#47. 3 whole Catfish, Wrapped separately
Veet (It's for Shaving your legs Only you don't Need A razor. It's with all the Girly
cosmetic stuff)
Vaseline
six pack, Mountain Dew
One dozen Tulips
one Bottle Of water
Tissues
One Can of blue Spray paint

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#48. Pudge: Why do smoke so damn fast?
Alska: Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

John Green

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#49. rightly lived - college and job and husband and babies and all that bullshit." The thing is that I do believe

John Green

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#50. If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.

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#51. I grabbed it and held it to my face and there,God,yes.Her smell.The lilac shampoo and the almond in her skin lotion and benneath all of that the faint sweetness of the skin itself.

John Green

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#52. How hard can it fucking be to successfully use a fake ID in this town? This is ridiculous! I won't stand for it. "No," I say, forcefully. "ID me."
"All right, man. If that's what gets your maracas shakin'.

John Green

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#53. 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

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#54. Oh dear, oh deary me!" Thorn said in a ridiculous falsetto voice. "What are we going to do? It's twelve big hairy guardsmen and Mahmel in a natty green hat."
It was all very well to joke about it, Hal thought, but the situation was serious.

John Flanagan

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#55. I don't see a future where we're all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and having conversations with knowledgeable people is immeasurably valuable and irreplaceable.

John Green

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#56. I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

John Fowles

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#57. Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another
unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.

John Green

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#58. Well, I think you're cool, and I want you to think I'm cool, and that's all popular is.

John Green

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#59. I was thinking about the word handle and all the unholdable things that got handled.

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#60. I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation.

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#61. I believe in hope, in what is sometimes called "radical hope." I believe there is hope for us all, even amid the suffering - and maybe even inside suffering.

John Green

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#62. Do you guys remember that time when we were all definitely going to die and then Ben grabbed the steering wheel and dodged a ginormous freaking cow and spun the car like the teacups at Disney World and we didn't die?

John Green

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#63. All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing.

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#64. And most of all his eyes-his eyes have this crazy hope and crazy longing and ridiculous giddiness in them

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#65. All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland.

John Heywood

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#66. 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.

John Green

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#67. You know what ambrosia tastes like? It tastes like all the things you can't eat on Weight Watchers. Cheeseburgers, sugar cookies, regular frickin' ice cream, instead of, like, ice cream that's made out of air ... and human hope.

John Green

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#68. The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.

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#69. Complete fugging idiots shoot guns all the time. That's why there are so many dead people.

John Green

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#70. 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

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#71. The rain made hermits of us all.

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#72. We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim - as you will be - of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible.

John Green

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#73. Who's my date" the Colonel asked.
*You're girlfriend is your date"
"All right" he said, and then deadpanned "but we don't get along very well

John Green

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#74. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too.

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#75. I mean, you have to really like someone to go all the way to the Bean with them and listen to them talk about their boyfriend who was neither boy nor friend and also I sang for him.

John Green

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#76. I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn't sound dumb, and I hated how it was all just a game of trying to figure out what the teacher wanted to hear and then saying it.

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#77. Almost everyone is obsessed about leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.
I want to leave a mark.

John Green

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#78. But there is all these time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And it's only in that time that we can see one another, because we see out of ourselves through our cracks and into others through theirs.

John Green

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#79. Boys do not have the monopoly in Staring Business, after all.

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#80. Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.

John Le Carre

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#81. As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time

John Green

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#82. 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

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#83. Forgive me if, in friendship's way, I offer thee a wreath of May ... [N]ourished by the dews of heaven ... So I have Ivy placed between, To prove that worth is ever green. The little blue Forget-me-not ... Spring's messenger in every spot, Smiling on all - Remember me!

John Clare

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#84. As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.

John Thorn

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#85. Nuts, arms, stomachs -- they never hurt. All hurt is brain hurt.

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#86. Just saying: stop thinking Ben should be you, and he needs to stop thinking you should be him, and y'all just chill the hell out.

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#87. If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd just let myself be trampled to death by the Satan Pig.

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#88. She never acted as if she liked him all that much, but then she never acted as if she liked anyone all that much.

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#89. You spend all your time worrying about losing your edge or getting dumped or whatever and you're never for a scond grateful.

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#90. Hating all the cool kids takes an awful lots of energy and I'd given up on it a long long time ago.

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#91. Like all sick children," he answered dispassionately, "you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

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#92. We kiss. Her hands are freezing on my face, and she tastes like coffee and the smell of the onion is still stuck in my nose, and my lips are all dry from the endless winter. And it's awesome.

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#93. We are all going.

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#94. All hurt is brain hurt. The

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#95. All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.

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#96. You all smoke to enjoy it, I smoke to die.

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#97. 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.

John Green

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#98. The locker room isn't porn for me / 'cause you're all too damned pimple-ey.

John Green

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#99. We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.

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#100. I left the only way you can leave. You pull your life off all at once - like a Band-Aid.

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