J. Green Quotes

I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, "This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.

Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children.

Alexa's heart jumped and skittered. She was at her favorite star's concert. And he was holding her hand!

his had disappeared. “Did you know they have mystical powers?”

of the authors’ imagination and used fictitiously. Emerald Green Desiree Holt

what I like and what I need’s two different things.

Writing is easy. Writing a publishable book is hard.

She came out of her reverie with a deep sigh and looked at him with a dreamy gaze of a soul that had been wandering afar, star-led.

To die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.

(I didn’t tell him that thediagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)

Chip, she’s gone, ” and he said, “I thought I’d feel her looking down on us, but you’re right. She’s just gone

I know what happens a the end of falling-landing

You can choose what you believe, Shuffler, but you can't change what's true.

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.

Love conquers all, " murmured Kim. "I heard it in a song, so it must be true.

Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

If people were rain I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane.

We were just standing there, and her eyes were so interesting. Not in the usual way of being interesting, like being extremely blue or extremely big or flanked by obscenely long lashes or anything.

I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that’s hard to look at..

You can’t burn down a made-up place.

Fire’s the sun, unwindin’ itself out o’ the wood.

And we'll call you...hmmm. Pudge.""Huh?""Pudge, " the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right.

I don't think you're dying, " I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer.He smiled. Gallows humor.

Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’slike to be dying, and (b) not have died.

(You know you've reached middle-age if...) when you hear 'Boys in the hood' you think of the Ku Klux Klan.

For it is discomfort's own essence to be near a man and to feel him in torture of misery, to feel with him the very pain of the misery, and yet to be unable to help.

Jewish history is never simply about the Jews, but always about their relationship with the rest of society.

Wake up! You’re a sacred soul and glory is yours for the taking.

At least I’m the one leaving. It’s so much easier to leave than to be left.

The world is an ambitious business. It continuously expands and evolves. But people are lazy and God is far too lovely to do something about it.

Honor is a balancing act and only the heart can strike that balance.

We care about the dead. We try with our lives to honor theirs. That’s how we make our lives meaningful, and how we make their lives meaningful, too.

The unknown is scary. It’s unknown for a reason. That's why normal people don't go there.

The afternoon light brightening the green in her eyes, her tan skin the last memory of fall

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities"- The Fault in our Stars

We are living the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.

Park your ego and listen to your readers. They can be your best friend or your worst enemy. But chances are you'll learn something from them.

If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish.

I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it.

She noted, more than once, that the meteor shower was happening, beyond the overcast sky, even if we could not see it. Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds.

Sometimes people don't get sick from bacteria or a virus- -living organisms alien to the human body- -but from the human brain itself. Our brains can be our worst enemy, our cruelest opponent.

Mrs Lynde says, "Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed." But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

Because you’re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

In all that I saw, I was satisfied, for I could dance in the drops of water, laugh with the laps of joyous tears, and sing to the songs of streaming senses.

Yet Conscience is a nobleman, the best in us, and a friend.

I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me.

I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia.

The beauty and music...It is a call...And some are not strong.

We are each, then, a sentence within the boundless book of humanity. The question is… What will our sentence read, how eloquently will it read, and who will read it?

Crossing the Fens by boat there comes the realisation that water not earth or sky is the natural element in this landscape.