J.M. Green Quotes

Your professional physicist opinion?" I ask.She smiles. "I believe the cat to be alive. And what says my esteemed colleague?""Alive, " I say.

and then I couldn't wait anymore, and my hand was on the back of her head, and then her lips on mine, the cold air gone and replaced with the warmth of her mouth, soft and sweet and hash-brown-tastic

You used, " he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.

I'll marry that girl one day, you mark my words, " Toby said.

...everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

In a relationship, no amount of extra effort on your part can make up for a lack of effort on theirs.

No wonder Sleeping Beauty looked so good...she took long naps, never got old, and didn't have to do anything but snore to get her Prince Charming.

We are not as frail as the strings would make us believe.

Each person walks a journey unique to himself or herself. Live your own journey and run your own race.

Oh, I know I'm a great trial to you, Marilla, " said Anne repentantly. "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might.

Learn from your mistakes but expect your enemies to learn from theirs.

The doors of Hell are never bolted or barred, to those who belong there.

I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...

There's this rushing sound, like white noise.The sound of nothing.

Unlike written words which can mend those leaving the tip of your tongue never bend.

Yet though I must lose my life, fear shall never make me change colour.

hat's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.

That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them

Don't give up all your romance, Anne, " he whispered shyly, "a little bit is a good thing - not too much, of course, but keep a little of it, Anne, keep a little of it.

But even of him I can think of with sorrow, now at this moment.Those times, those people...have gone. How can there be fury felt for things that are gone to dust.

You're the sort of girl that should only have happiness, you know? Who should wake up smiling, feeling special because someone does everything they can to make that so.

It became a weekend of reading, of trying to see her in the fragments of the poem she'd left for me.

Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines.

You are the artist, and your days the canvas. Will you create an original masterpiece, or live a paint-by-numbers kind of life?

You know your Bible too well and life too little.

The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.

...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.

The longer I do my job ... the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

All those calm, adult discussions. When all she really wanted to do was scream for her momma, her sweet momma, the one person in the world who loved her better than anyone ever would or ever could.

The world was created for Mankind, not for some of mankind.

She had short curls and her face had so many wrinkles it looked as if someone had been trying to draw her for a very long time and every line put in had made the face more like her.

One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John GreenIf you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.

Life is all about progress and movements, keep it moving.

... going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.

Is it shocking?" he asked sarcastically. "To discover that there are things you don't know?

And her dumplings were so light they would float in the air and you'd have to catch 'em to eat 'em.

All right. The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.

Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too.

You've been away a long time. Were you lost?' He sounds lost himself, half strangled and fighting to stay conscious.'Wounded, not lost, ' I tell him, but I do feel lost.

Some things get lost others return. That is how it is: the way of things.

How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

...motherhood is the thing in a woman's life that catches her by total and complete surprise.

His problems are so huge that your problems can just hide behind them.

Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well.

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.

[I]t occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what´s cool".

I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what´s cool.

I'd be lying if I said killing off characters wasn't therapeutic in some way.