Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity John Green More Quotes by John Green More Quotes From John Green I call my mom from the car. I tell her that Neutral Milk Hotel is playing at the Hideout and she says, "Who? What? You're hiding out?" And then I hum a few bars of one of their songs and Mom says, "Oh, I know that song. It's on the mix you made me," and I say, "Right," and she says, "Well you have to be back by eleven," and I say, "Mom this is a historical event. History doesn't have a curfew," and she says, "Back by eleven," and I say, "Fine. Jesus," and then she has to go cut cancer out of someone. John Green mom song jesus I have to tell you man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now. John Green red kind men All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby. John Green heroic literature people As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar. John Green desperate bipolar Love is tied to truth. John Green tied love-is Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime. John Green drunk coffee loneliness I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural. John Green urban want mean Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food. John Green english-words too-much mean Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life. John Green way-in-life alaska people We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love. John Green acknowledge real made Tiny Cooper is splayed out across the thin carpet, using his backpack as a pillow. He’s wearing skinny jeans, which look very much like denim sausage casings. John Green denim jeans looks All sorts of yayness floods my brain. Love is such a drug. John Green teenage-love drug love-is I hated cranberry sauce, but for some reason my mom persisted in her lifelong belief that it was my very favorite food, even though every single Thanksgiving I politely declined to include it on my plate. John Green favorite-foods sauce mom I didn't know what to say to her - I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side. John Green love-triangle triangles sides I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness. John Green loving-someone real death Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again. John Green notebook dream memories I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life. John Green labyrinth-looking-for-alaska live-by real I mean, I am pretty fabulous. Am I not?' 'You're a pillar of fabulosity in the community,' I tell him. John Green fabulous community mean Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large. John Green gay believe world Dear Jane, Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes. Yours, Will Grayson John Green cheated-on dear wife
