Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime. John Green More Quotes by John Green More Quotes From John Green I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. John Green happy-valentines-day stars love-you Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself. John Green real stupid believe I'm not from Indianapolis, but I like living in Indianapolis. If I were to explain it, I'd tell someone to imagine a city that perfectly captures the best and the worst of America. Imagine the truly American city, because that's what it is. John Green imagine cities america The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive. John Green love-is long children What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world that so often denies the reality of death and the reality that we are surrounded by and outnumbered by the dead. Here, is a very playful way of acknowledging that and acknowledging that and that always, whenever we play, whenever we live, we are living in both literal and metaphorical ways on the memory and bones of the dead. John Green play memories reality I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken. John Green writing order people I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies. John Green true-love real believe See, popularity is complicated. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about liking; you have to really like being liked, and also sort like being disliked. John Green like-you complicated thinking Think for one minute of those who have loved you up into this day. John Green one-minute minutes thinking I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else. John Green no-point nihilist nihilism If you don't say the honest thing, it never becomes true. John Green honest ifs But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves. John Green brutus cassius stars I mean, it’s stupid to miss someone you didn’t even get along with. But I don’t know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with. John Green missing-someone nice stupid I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what. John Green alaska-young looking-for-alaska-book alaska This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library. John Green library unbearable book Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others. John Green complexity roles humans You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow. John Green rainbow hate song The Degree to which I am blessed staggers me... the degree to which I take that for granted shames me. -Streetwalking with Jesus John Green degrees blessed jesus Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it to do great things in us & through us, because suffering is fertile... it an grow new life. John Green pain new-life suffering I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father. John Green passion hate father