At some point, I realized I was Kaitlyning the encounter, so I decided to text Kaitlyn and ask for some advice. John Green More Quotes by John Green More Quotes From John Green It seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box, that the unobserved is both there and not. John Green boxesaliveseems I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, 'I'm busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do.' WHATEVER! READ! I mean, you're watching CSI: Miami. Why would you be watching CSI: Miami, when you could be READING CSI: Miami, the novelization? John Green teenagerjobsbook The fundamental mistake I had always made - and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make - was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl. John Green girlrealmistake He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening. John Green pencilshappeningspaper But why Alaska?' I asked her. 'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut word, Alyeska. It means 'that which the sea breaks against,' and I love that. But at the time, I just saw Alaska up there. And it was big, just like I wanted to be. John Green alaskaseamean Sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad. John Green dadkissingreal The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not. John Green invinciblefaultsmay Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds. Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force. John Green cuttingbelieveideas And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers. John Green labyrinth-looking-for-alaskafingersscrewed-up I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr. John Green simplecharacterbook still, what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? that if he got blue, i got black? that i hated those pills so much, because i knew how much i relied on them to live? John Green blackmindblue I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.” - Takumi John Green strawberrieshillsfoxes You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together. John Green realsleepromantic Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on? John Green painlessifsletting-go Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down John Green bathsdonelying I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you for all my days if you just this once provide me with an invisibility cloak, come on, come on, please please invisibility cloak now now now-. It's very possible that Jane is thinking the same thing, I have no idea, because she's not talking either, and I can't look at her on account of how I'm blinded by embarrassment. John Green invisibility-cloakmovingthinking I make a gesture that is intended to convey, "Hey, no hurry, talk as long as you'd like," and probably actually conveys, "Hey, look at me! I have spastic hands. John Green longhandslooks Random questions are the least random of all questions. John Green Because you're my friend, wingnut. John Green my-friends You can't dingleberry that! That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry! John Green misuse
