J.M. Green Quotes

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

That— we seemed to have decided without saying a word— might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy.

It would not do to tell other people, not just because they wouldn't believe but because they wouldn't care.

He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.

It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn’t complicated by much in the way of thought.

Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.

Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.

The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from.

The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain.

When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you can't help getting a little dirty yourself.

I leave behind this hurricane of f***ing lies

Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them, " I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will

Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...

I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..

What about the rest of your life?"She shrugged. "What about it?""Aren't you worried about, like, forever?""Forever is composed of nows, " she says.

It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes-Miles "Pudge

Headline?" he asked."'Swing Set Needs Home, '" I said."'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home, '" he said."'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children, '" I said.

Principled hate is a hell of a lot stronger than "Boy, I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown me into the lake" hate.

He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace...

Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off."Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. "You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.

The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.

Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers.

Wind is renewable. Turbines are not.

Peace is not an easy prospect--it requires greater bravery than does conflict.

Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded.

Never spit in a lion's face when you've got your hand in his mouth.

Look into yourself, Think about what you will need in the long run and not what you think you want now. #wisdom!

L'esercizio rende perfetti, ma nessuno è perfetto, quindi perché esercitarsi?

Well, I don't want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life, ' declared Anne. 'I'm quite content to be Anne of Green Gables, with my string of pearl beads.

Live like you were dying, Love because you are.

We all romanticize the people we adore.

If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

Keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe... but failing to open the box doesn't kill the cat.

We need never be without hope because we can never be irreparably broken.

So much of how we think, feel, and live depends on our vision-what we choose to see in any given situation.

I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us, as it should.

I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.

I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning, ' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary, ' and then he died.

You can't just make me different and then leave

Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town.

Losing you're co-remember meant losing the memory itself.

He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him.

If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.-- Robert Frost

And wonder, dread and warhave lingered in that landwhere loss and love in turnhave held the upper hand.

As I ponder my pilgrim’s progress to Orthodoxy, however, I realize that I didn’t make the trip alone, but in a two-seater. And I wasn’t the one driving.

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.", Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]