|
3581121
|
Augustus: "I can still dominate your blind ass at Counterinsurgence," Isaac: "I'm pretty sure all asses are blind,"
|
|
isaac
the-fault-in-our-stars
blind
|
John Green |
|
8d8ce78
|
Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together." What?" Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud." That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of." The people who've been in your secret hiding places." The people you bite your thumb in front of." Hi." Hi." ..." ..." Wow. My first Lindsey." My second Colin." That was fun. Let's try it again." Sold." ..." ..." ..." ..."
|
|
humor
lindsey
|
John Green |
|
b85c5be
|
We got off at the next exit, quietly, and, switching drivers, we walked in front of the car. We met and I held him, my hands balled into tight fists around his shoulders, and he wrapped his short arms around me and squeezed tight, so that I felt the heaves of his chest as we realized over and over again that we were still alive. I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, 'God we must look so lame,' but it does..
|
|
still-alive
sad
|
John Green |
|
00fb938
|
Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I'm sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I'm gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you're gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you--they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn't prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.
|
|
science
decomposition
entropy
fall-apart
together
|
John Green |
|
4551ddf
|
If drunk were cookies, I'd be Famous Amos
|
|
|
John Green |
|
75c133f
|
Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held out hope that the suffering could be transcended. Jesus brought the message that even the last shall be first, that even the tax collectors and lepers - the outcasts - had cause for hope. And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope.
|
|
|
John Green |
|
0827d78
|
My head was level with hers as we stared at each other from opposite sides of the glass. I don't remember how it ended - if I went to bed or she did. In my memory, it doesn't end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever.
|
|
|
John Green |
|
29bd5c6
|
High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.
|
|
system
|
John Green |
|
76e581c
|
It's only forever... Not long at all.
|
|
|
John Green |
|
122f95a
|
Dad had a sign of his own. MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, it read, and then underneath that (AND GUS).
|
|
|
John Green |
|
869fb53
|
The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?
|
|
|
John Green |
|
7fd3a49
|
I don't really want to be the costar of anyone's life.
|
|
|
John Green |
|
506fce0
|
You can't just make me different, and the leave. Because I was fine before.
|
|
|
John Green |
|
2afd054
|
It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?"
|
|
|
John Green |
|
d2d295b
|
I'm what I need to be at any moment to stay above the ground but below the radar. The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is 'I'm full of shit.
|
|
|
John Green |
|
0cf6d8b
|
I have to tell you man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.
|
|
|
John Green |
|
7710420
|
His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn't even know that guys could turn me on-not, like, in real life
|
|
|
John Green |
|
8aac71f
|
Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful. And that is a powerful opiate, certainly, the hope of a better life to come. But there's a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people believe only because they need an opiate. Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seem running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked ..
|
|
|
John Green |
|
43ee8a0
|
My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.
|
|
|
John Green |
|
142fe93
|
But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?" I nodded into his shirt. "Gives you an idea how I feel about you," he said. My old man. He always knew just what to say."
|
|
|
John Green |
|
7e78894
|
I think about how much depends upon a best friend. Then you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not.
|
|
|
John Green |
|
741461c
|
I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with.
|
|
|
John Green |
|
1c13506
|
There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.
|
|
strength
questions
|
John Green |
|
47ee143
|
I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. 'The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.' That's God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost.
|
|
|
John Green |
|
300510d
|
If only I were as good at life as I am at the internet.
|
|
|
John Green |
|
3a3059c
|
When you stop wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you stop suffering when they do.
|
|
|
John Green |
|
dac0c07
|
Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds," I added. Radar tapped a locker twice with his fist to show his approval, and then came back with another. "Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force." --
|
|
humor
prom
john-green
paper-towns
high-school
dating
|
John Green |
|
2939865
|
Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds," I added. Radar tapped a locker twice with his fist to show his approval, and then came back with another. "Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force."
|
|
humor
prom
john-green
paper-towns
high-school
dating
|
John Green |
|
422031d
|
I spy with my little eye a great story.
|
|
paper-towns
|
John Green |
|
fb93d61
|
We are engaged here in the most important pusuit in history. The search for meaning. What is What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person?How did we come to be, and wha will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules this game, and how might we best play it?
|
|
|
John Green |
|
1e016f7
|
Your driving is unpleasant, but it isn't technically unsafe.
|
|
|
John Green |
|
635dba8
|
Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...
|
|
kiss
stars
romantic
romance
inspire
love
inspirational
fangirl
lovely-quote
okay
thefaultinourstars
cancer
augustus-waters
hazel-grace-lancaster
john-green
author
green
tfios
the-fault-in-our-stars
john
fault
always
book
|
John Green |
|
5e7304c
|
While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.
|
|
the-fault-in-our-stars
|
John Green |
|
a28d13a
|
We imagine people as animals or gods. -But she was just a person, a girl.
|
|
|
John Green |
|
d9490e7
|
I can only hope," Julie said, turning back to Gus, "they grow into the kind of thoughtful, intelligent young men you've become." I resisted the urge to audibly gag. "He's not that smart," I said to Julie. "She's right. It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations." "Right, it's primarily his hotness," I said. "It can be sort of blinding," he said. "It actually did blind our friend Isaac," I said. "Terr..
|
|
hazel-grace
|
John Green |
|
6361781
|
Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries - God, the nature of the universe, etc. - he knew the least about tampons. To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears: he was aware of their existence, but he'd never seen on in the wild, and didn't really care to.
|
|
|
John Green |
|
1546219
|
So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.
|
|
|
John Green |
|
e7c36aa
|
I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.
|
|
quentin
|
John Green |
|
e540d89
|
As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
|
|
kissing
|
John Green |
|
d826772
|
I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.
|
|
the-fault-in-our-stars
|
John Green |
|
cc198db
|
Our hearts were broken in the same places. That's something like love, but maybe not quite the thing itself.
|
|
|
John Green |
|
dbd1dc2
|
Oh shit did you just dis the feminine gender I'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blender You think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhyme But I got flow like Ghostbusters got slime Objectify women and it's fuckin' on You'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon.
|
|
rap
|
John Green |
|
5207dc8
|
Random questions are the least random of all questions.
|
|
|
John Green |
|
af15547
|
When I've thought about him dying - which admittedly isn't that much - I always thought of it like you said, that all strings inside him broke. But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ships think, or maybe we're grass - our roots are so interdependent that no one is dead as long as soneone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which..
|
|
understanding-others
|
John Green |