Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy. John Green More Quotes by John Green More Quotes From John Green And I wrote my way out of the labyrinth. John Green labyrinthmy-wayway It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four. John Green twentiesdoneshould-have I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey? John Green leavingtownsjourney 3 whole Catfish, Wrapped separately Veet (It’s for Shaving your legs Only you don’t Need A razor. It’s with all the Girly cosmetic stuff) Vaseline six pack, Mountain Dew One dozen Tulips one Bottle Of water Tissues One Can of blue Spray paint John Green girlybluewater If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen. John Green paranoidhappeningshappens I couldn’t help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching them—it was a kind of sad I didn’t mind, and so I just listened, letting all the happiness and the sadness of this ending swirl around in me, each sharpening the other. For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way. John Green sadnessrealschool 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. John Green longschoolthinking And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school. It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. John Green distanceperfectschool It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in. John Green reallifefall The punch connected, but (1) Colin forgot to close his fist, so he was slapping not hitting, and (2) instead of slapping TOC, he ended up slapping Hassan flush across the cheek, whereupon Hassan finally succeeded in falling down. John Green hittingfistsfall We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. John Green alaskateenageenergy And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles. John Green hurdlefasterknows Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying. John Green supportrealcharacter 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. John Green oblivionconsciousnessworry 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. John Green augustusbasketballinspirational You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail. John Green distanceeffortromantic I have an Augustus Waters fetish. John Green augustusfetishwater Some wars," he said dismissively. "What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart is made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner. John Green cancerrealwar Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. John Green starsreallife The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture. John Green realhouselooks
