J.M. Green Quotes

The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.

Colin Singleton’s distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.

Commerce is the great civilizer.

Crying is you, plus tears

What's the meaning of life? Other people.

The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive.

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use.

One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful.

I'm a dark blonde, yes. I dyed my hair blue, then black, when I was 14. I thought the colour was more flattering and matched my skin tone. I don't think I'd ever change back unless it was for a film.

It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me.

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.

Grief doesn't change you. It reveals you.

Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.

Don't worry about how things are. Watch where they are headed.

You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.

Why is it called Piggie-back riding? I'm not a piggie!

You were clearly not doing your part in the clover search, perv.

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.

You can't just make me different, and then leave. Because I was fine before, Alaska. I was just fine with me and last words and school friends, and you can't just make me different and then die.

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

Golf is a diabolical game. It's easy to make fun of something that's so bizarre, so painful, so humiliating... yet so joyous.

John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.

We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.

Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while telling it

It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.

A review of the science suggests that uncertainty is so high as to raise a good prospect that mandatory green house gas reductions will produce little or no environmental benefit.

Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.

Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

Liberty is the breath of progress.

She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.

I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.

Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa.

I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.

But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do.

When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life.

It's almost as if our society values opinion over knowledge.

Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.

Some day I'll write a book and call it 'How I Got the Nickname Pumpsie' and sell it for one dollar, and if everybody who ever asked me that question buys the book, I'll be a millionaire.