J. Green Quotes

Two Parts. One Whole.

I think, therefore I am, dangerous.

Sometimes I think you're still a prisoner. You're not free of this place in your head, Nathan. And you're definitely not free of those people. They haunt you.

If people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricaine

Everything's uglier up close.Not you.

Let all things be done in order, with right and decency. Those things are worth a man's life or two. Life without would be a hell, indeed.

The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed.

If you dont' live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good.

Ghosts are the only ones who never have to feel scared. Because the worst thing in the world has already happened to them.

Can’t count on no miracles. Sometimes, you just got to have a plan.

Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time.

Shame lurks in the pockets of the mind (or spirit), like lint. No matter how brave a face you put on things – and believe me, I did – you always have to face yourself in the end.

My heart is really pounding, " I said. "That's how you know you're having fun.

Well we can't be having that. One person starts having fun and it turns into an epidemic. Difficult to stop that kind of thing, you know.

I am in love with you, and I am not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind! There was something so special about that place...even your emotions had an echo...and so much space!

Photographs are just light and time" - Aza Holmes

The best way to get rid of the negative thoughts is to crowd them out with something else bigger and more beautiful: worship of the One who holds everything in His powerful and capable hands.

I felt the worry start to snatch at my breath when I finished talking.

Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.

The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her

we need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken

That didn't happen, of course. Things never happenedlike I imagined them.

If the inevitably of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does.

A bright man of conviction and action is a beacon to his country, but a flash light to the scurrying of inaction, ego, and insecurity of lesser men.

You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us

Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company.

I'll be your blanket, baby. Wrap yourself up in me. Let me give you shelter, in the winter of this world.

I missed the future.

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

You put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you

It´s a metaphor: you see, you put the killing thing right between your teeth, you just don't give it the power to do it's killing.

Either you were the best of the best or you were nothing, and somehow that didn't seem right.

I love a book that makes me cry.

Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears.

Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.

The self-righteous scream judgments against others to hide the noise of skeletons dancing in their own closets.

I’m really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why, or what.

He'd been saving up his love for years and years, waiting for the right personto spend his fortune on.

Just for a moment, amid all the bad stuff, this was a happy place again.

I don't think your missing pieces ever go inside you again once they go missing.

The terrible price of living, ain’t it? To live through others dying?

not knowing what I needed to do or where I needed to go, I knew all the same that I was going in the right direction.

If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be mt flowers.

Big, ugly homes for big, ugly people, ' I told Margo as we pulled into Casavilla.'No shit. If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms, do me a favor and shoot me.

He says, "You know I love you. Still. Forever".

You gave me forever within the numbered days.

Foever is composed of nows.

I know love is real because I feel it.

What does she want to be? A green girl doesn't like to consider this question. She is waiting around to be discovered just for being herself.