J.M. Green Quotes

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

You are always a little bit wrong

I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.

I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.

That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence

I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.

There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?

Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well.

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.

But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.

I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

If we keep pulling death from the ground, we will reap death from the skies.

Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.

She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die

Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.

I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met.

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.

Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

I didn't know what to say to her - I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.

Long week. Long month. Long life.

I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.

there is no best and no worst, ...those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is

I've gotten really hot since you went blind.

Okay is BURSTING with sensuality

And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.

that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.

I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,' Augustus interrupted. 'Please to be eating your sandwich and listening.

I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.

Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool,' I answered.

Funerals...are for the living.

What's that?" "The laundry basket?" "No, next to it." "I don't see anything next to it." "It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small.

We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone.

You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.

He missed that, too, and it hadn't even happened.

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story.

You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.