Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity John Green More Quotes by John Green More Quotes From John Green All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of "learned helplessness" without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of "learned blindness" ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor. John Green rich may men I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be... but God clearly says, "those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility. John Green hard-work humility class The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company. John Green sarcastic winter fall Like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows, and that kind of bright, soft light you get when the sun isn't quite setting? That's the light that makes everything better, everything prettier, and today, everything just seemed to be in that light. John Green shadow light long More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against the back of Takumi's headrest, and I cried, whimpering, and I didn't even feel sadness so much as pain. John Green loving-someone sadness pain You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can't remember, because I never knew. John Green alaska choices sorry Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in books and why your English teacher deserves your attention. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if the author intended the symbol to be there because the job of reading is not to understand the author’s intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as a we ourselves. John Green teacher jobs book Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really. John Green bad-weather weather drama I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, God we must look so lame, but it doesn't matter much when you have just now realized, all the time later, that you are still alive. John Green lame alive looks How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging. John Green challenges conversation book I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with. John Green answers wonder Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox. John Green pudge looking-for-alaska-book foxes Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are... People are different when you can smell them and see them up close. John Green smell people thinking Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. John Green real depression life I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed. John Green family years school Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well. John Green awkward romantic boys There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when they tell you that you have, say, a 20 percent chance of living five years, the math kicks in and you figure that’s one in five . . . so you look around and think, as any healthy person would: I gotta outlast four of these bastards. John Green cancer real math I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.) John Green cancer congratulations miracle You live for pretentious metaphors. John Green pretentious metaphor Cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. John Green flirty one-day sweet
