Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity John Green More Quotes by John Green More Quotes From John Green I think about how much depends upon a best friend. Then you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not. John Green feet morning thinking I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice. John Green obvious-things voice real Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green John Green passion mistake character I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance. John Green distance safe want All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to. Someone who — because no one thought she was a person — had no one to really talk to. John Green knowing book people You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different. John Green alaska different matter As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, "Wait, wait. I don't get it." "That's because you have eight functioning brain cells." "Studies show that Marijuana is better for your health than those cigarettes," Hank said. Alaska swallowed a mouthful of fries, took a drag on her cigarette, and blew a smoke at Hank. "I may die young," she said. "But at least I'll die smart. Now, back to tangents. John Green marijuana smart cells The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny. John Green pants dying littles It was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. I wanted to be the last one she loved. And I knew I wasn’t. I knew it, and I hated her for it. I hated her for not caring about me. I hated her for leaving that night, and I hated myself , too, not only because I let her go but because if I had been enough for her, she wouldn’t have even wanted to leave. She would have just lain with me and talked and cried, and I would have listened and kissed at her tears as they pooled in her eyes. John Green eye caring night The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up. John Green drawing depth sky The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being? John Green being-yourself boys mean Wait, wait. I don't get it.' 'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells. John Green eight cells waiting Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness. John Green paris girl real The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't. John Green alaska girl years How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast. John Green labyrinth notes wise "And we'll call you... hmmm. Pudge." "Huh?" "Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right." John Green pudge skinny years She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale. "DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted. Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts." "That's not any better! John Green alaska whales sorry Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people. John Green girl boys people But it was only hot outside, and generally I only walked outside between one air-conditioned place to another. John Green air hot I'm not asexual. I'm arelationshipal. John Green
