Top 100 John Green World Quotes
#1. The last time I was this scared, I peed myself."
"The last time I was this scared," Radar says, "I actually had to face a Dark Lord in order to make the world safe for wizards.
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#2. As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.
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#3. I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters.
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#4. It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn't the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
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#5. 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.
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#6. It is so hard to leave - until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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#7. The world contains a lot of dead people.
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#8. -so if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's what the rest of the world does.
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#9. 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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#10. You've forgotten how sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad, and the whole world is brighter and clearer than ever before.
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#11. 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?
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#12. It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don't care if that mark is a scar.
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#13. You don't get to chose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers. - Augustus Waters
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#14. That night,I lay on my side,staring out the window into the invisible world outside.I kept trying to fall asleep,but then my eyes would dart open,just to check.I couldn't help but hope that Margo Roth Spiegelman would return to my window and drag my tired ass through one more night I'd never forget.
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#15. Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums ... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid, no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories.
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#16. 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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#17. You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.
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#18. The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory.
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#19. You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was.
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#20. I wanted ... " I said.
"I know," he said. "I know. Apparently the world is not a wish-granting factory." That made me smile a little.
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#21. Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.
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#22. That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered.
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#23. 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.
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#24. The world isn't just because only then we would have the power to change it.
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#25. I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.
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#26. Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.
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#27. Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.
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#28. Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.
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#29. Weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.
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#30. When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.
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#31. 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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#32. 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
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#33. 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.
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#34. 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?
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#35. I wondered why no one had shown the common courtesy to tell me to put on shoes, and why was I out there in my underwear, chicken legs exposed to the world?
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#36. Apparently, the world is not a
wish-granting factory.
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#37. In this world, Colin figured, you're best off staying with your kind.
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#38. I couldn't hear a thing in the world but you. And it was so cold then, and so silent, and I loved you so much. Now it's hot and dead quiet again, and I love you still.
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#39. 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.
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#40. Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.
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#41. Dear World, I am not hot for Will Grayson. But world, there's something else you should know about Will Grayson." And then he begins to sing, a Broadway baritone as big as his waist, "I can't live without him!
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#42. By saying you don't care if the world falls apart, in some small way you're saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.
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#43. Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them.
John Haines
#44. Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large.
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#45. There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined. I feel like this is an important idea, one of those ideas that your brain must wrap itself around slowly, the way pythons eat ...
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#46. How you love your heroes when you are young and safe and the world has not ended.
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#47. The World is not a wish granting factory"- The Fault In Our Stars
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#48. That while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.
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#49. The only solution was to try to unmake the world, to make it black and silent and uninhabited again, to return to the moment before the Big Bang, in the beginning when there was the Word, and to live in that vacuous uncreated space alone with the Word.
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#50. Tonight the sun has died like an Emperor ... great scarlet arcs of silk ... saffron ... green ... crimson ... and the blaze of Venus to remind one of the absolute and the infinite ... and along the lower rim of beauty lay the hard harsh line of the hills ...
John Coldstream
#51. The world is not a wish garanting factory
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#52. You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world ... but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
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#53. I did not aspire to become the world's only virgin with pubic lice.
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#54. The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.
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#55. that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it,
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#56. There is a charm in Solitude that cheers
A feeling that the world knows nothing of
A green delight the wounded mind endears
After the hustling world is broken off
John Clare
#57. Nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource.
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#58. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful." - Hazel
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#59. Let's try to remember that the world isn't just, because only then will we have the power to change it.
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#60. Which got me to wondering whether it's possible to learn how to be a person in a world where all the people are dead.
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#61. You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.
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#62. You know what, coat hanger, I know that you're alone in the world right now and I know it's not easy, but I want you to know that one day you are gonna hold some clothes.
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#63. It's that there's some people in this world who you can just love and love no matter what.
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#64. I've always liked quiet people: You never know if they're dancing in a daydream or if they're carrying the weight of the world.
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#65. And I wanted to know whether it is possible to live a hopeful life in a world riddled with ambiguity, whether we can find a way to go on even when we don't get answers to questions that haunt us
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#66. I like that I can drive 15 hours from home without the world changing too much.
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#67. Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.
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#68. Nerd girls are the world's most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.
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#69. I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance.
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#70. People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved and people are being used.
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#71. That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.
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#72. There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
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#73. Don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I
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#74. You still secretly believe that there is an element of magic to this world? It's all just soulless molecules bouncing against each other randomly.
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#75. Everyone wants to leave an extraordinary life.
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#76. But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.
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#77. I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.
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#78. There was never enough air in the world, but the shortage was particularly acute in that moment.
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#79. Suppose that climate change is not real and all we do is adopt green technologies, which our economy and our technology is perfectly capable of. Then all we've done is given our kids a cleaner world.
John McCain
#80. Does it hurt?" I asked. "No. Just." He stared at the ceiling for a long time before saying, "I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like the sound of Dutch people speaking Dutch. And now ... I don't even get a battle. I don't get a fight.
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#81. In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don't suck with people who don't suck.
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#82. Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters."
Computer: "I don't understand-"
Issac: "Me neither. Pause
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#83. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
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#84. You go see 'Timothy Green,' and tell me if it doesn't rock your world. I loved it. I loved every frame of it.
John C. McGinley
#85. In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.
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#86. Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.
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#87. The kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world. t
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#88. While the world wasn't build for the humans, we were built for the world
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#89. Radar threw his books into his locker and shut it. Then the din of conversation around us quieted just a bit as he turned his eyes toward the heavens and shouted, IT IS NOT MY FAULT THAT MY PARENTS OWN THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF BLACK SANTAS.
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#90. The world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world
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#91. When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him." I
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#92. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else ... But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists.
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#93. And his spirit soared like an indomitable eagle until the world itself could not contain his joyous soul.
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#94. I believe we have a choice in this world about how to tell sad stories , on the one hand , we can sugercoat it. Nothing is too messed up that can't be fixed with a Peter Gabriel song, I like this version as much as the next girl does. It's just not the truth
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#95. Mia,' she whispered. I turned around. 'What?' I whispered back.
She smiled at me a little. 'LEEERRROOOY JEEENNKKIINNNSS!' she shouted, then spun around and ran toward the Z's in the lighting section.
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#96. There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.
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#97. We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.
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#98. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world monocular.
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#99. If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.
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#100. If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world.
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