Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity John Green More Quotes by John Green More Quotes From John Green I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to. John Green real sorry knows Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'I don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless... John Green luxury fighting caring Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does. John Green hipster caring doe It's like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to be soulmates. Or book. Oh my god...you like The Outsiders too...it's like we're the same person! No, we're not. It's like we have the same English teacher. There's a difference. John Green soulmate real teacher You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot. John Green hipster unrequited-love way We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are. John Green weird-things real world So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe. John Green hipster boxes dark We can hear others, and we can travel with them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system, like so many leaves of grass. But the game makes me wonder wheter we can really ever fully become another. John Green crazy games moving I have spent my life falling. Not the kind that Tiny's talking about. He's talking about love. I'm talking about life. In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends. John Green feelings talking fall When you're walking home at night, do you even get creeped out and even though it's silly and embarrassing you just want to run home?" It seemed too secret and personal to admit to virtual stranger, but I told her, "Yeah, totally." For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, "Run run run run run," and took off, pulling me behind her. John Green real silly running Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time. John Green guy sound mean I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said. John Green asian kids thinking I don't suppose I can wear the flamingo tie," he said as he pulled on black socks. "It's a bit festive, given the occasion," I responded. "Can't wear it to the opera," said the Colonel, almost smiling. "Can't wear it to a funeral. Can't use it to hang myself. It's a bit useless, as ties go." I gave him a tie. John Green funeral black ties The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable. John Green truth-is encounters should She is close enough to me that I can see her, because even now there is the outward sign of visible light, even at night in this parking lot on the outskirts of Algoe. After we kiss, our foreheads touch as we stare at each other. Yes, I can see her almost perfectly in this cracked darkness. John Green kissing light night Thank you," I say, pounding his back probably too hard. "That was the best damned passenger-seat driving I've ever seen in my life." He pats my uninjured cheek with his greasy hand. "I did it to save myself, not you," he says. "Believe me when I say that you did not once cross my mind. " I laugh. "Nor you mine," I say. John Green laughing believe hands But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. John Green roots long mean When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did. John Green hipster alaska fall I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel. John Green towns mirrors people I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost. John Green space life thinking
