People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love. John Green More Quotes by John Green More Quotes From John Green I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison. John Green snakes morning trying Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person. John Green south-carolina energy faces You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers. John Green alabama bad-things people The Colonel led all the cheers. Cornbread!" he screamed. CHICKEN!" the crowd responded. Rice!" PEAS!" And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER SATs." Hip Hip Hip Hooray!" the Colonel cried. YOU'LL BE WORKIN' FOR US SOMEDAY! John Green hips cheer together Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful. John Green real beautiful believe But mothers lie. It's in the job description. John Green mom mother jobs You're awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted. John Green busted philosophical girl Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous. John Green mutual amusement good-things Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries - God, the nature of the universe, etc. - he knew the least about tampons. To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears: he was aware of their existence, but he'd never seen on in the wild, and didn't really care to. John Green etc bears laughing He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon strings seemed so beautiful as they rolled up and down with the wind, landing on the ground and then twirling and floating up again, falling and rising and falling and rising. John Green beautiful wind fall I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know, I am also a girl. I'm one of the three wise MEN. And it's gay to think that James Bond is hot. John Green gay girl wise And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together. John Green leaving paper together Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it. John Green sharing-knowledge wikipedia share Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together." What?" Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud." That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of." The people who've been in your secret hiding places." The people you bite your thumb in front of." Hi." Hi." ..." ..." Wow. My first Lindsey." My second Colin." That was fun. Let's try it again." Sold." ..." ..." ...". John Green fun people thinking I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails. John Green friendship people needs …God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own. John Green stealing problem people I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy John Green strategy social listening Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale,” I said. John Green garage ashes said I don't think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple with the futility of effort. Also they make us barf which isn't fun either... Wash your hands, cover your coughs, and find a way to hold in balance the futility of effort with the necessity to struggle. John Green struggle fun thinking Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children. John Green dream long children
