J. Green Quotes

When she smiled at me, I felt unborn poems stirring within.

And if the stars should ever die, we'll make our own light, you and I.

I want to kiss you so thoroughly that you lose your ability to stand.

I wanted to do this properly, but I look at you and I forget...

I hate that. I hate kids like that so fugging much.

The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit.

..if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was ahurricane.

Everything looks uglier close up.

this is the rough part, okay? so just stay tuned for the good part. i promise it'll come soon.

Beneath the rust and grime which dulls the shine of our weathered hearts, joy patiently waits to be rediscovered

The satisfaction? The joy? That comes from solving problems and making things.

Wisdom is the closest to foolishness, a person can become so wise it leads him to become foolish.

They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child.

All small children are weathermen.

He said No to those Wild Things and so did I. Sometimes we said No and sometimes we shouted it and we were ferocious because it counted for everything.

The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay.

A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

Agnes always wanted to go out. Out was better than in. In was inside, in was interior, in was introspection.

The marks we leave are too often scars.

I just want to domething that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

...there are books...which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

The prank is entitled "Subverting the Patriarchal Paradigm".

Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women.

... we live in a society of larvae--immature human beings, adolescents disguised as adults.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.” Easy enough to say when you’re a Roman nobleman (or Shakespeare!), but there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.

Love is for the living, for people who have a stake in the future.

I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum.

You are in control of your destiny. Start making plans, set goals and work as best towards them.

You cannot truly love yourself if you are constantly surrounded by clutter, chaos and bitterness. The time has come for you to de-clutter your mind and your environment.

I figured something out, " he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable."Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.

Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it, hold it in your hand. It disappears every time.

The only thing that is sure about the future is that it will happen. The only thing not sure about the future is what will happen".

But wasn’t time for what was. Was time to settle up the future.

You can't know what an experience will mean to future-you until you are future-you. You need millions of seconds of perspective, which ultimately, only time can buy.

He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

Imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

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.

How do you have to live, I wondered, to be in harmony with what you honestly think?

I believed our touching to be more intense because of it's very holding back. Belief is always a choice.

She had a grocer's faith in books

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

I’m addicted to words. The only way to get my fix is to write and read.

Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them.

weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time.

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time.