John Green may refer to:
I don't want to hear another negative word about cheerleaders. If it weren't for cheerleaders, who would tell us when and how to be happy during athletic events? If it weren't for cheerleaders, how would America's prettiest girls get the exercise that's so vital to a healthy life?
And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she would laugh.
She never acted as if she liked him all that much, but then she never acted as if she liked anyone all that much.
That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
Ben's tongue is like sunscreen. . . It's good for your health and should be applied liberally.
standing in line is a form of oppression
Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real. A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who created the dot could never have imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also. And it seemed like a way to tell that paper girl who cared about popularity and clothes and everything else: 'You are going to the paper towns. And you are never coming back.
Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist. “Not cold so much as underoxygenated,” I said. “I love it when you talk medical to me,” he said. He stood, and pulled me up with him, and did not let go of my hand until we reached the stairs.
I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or off, urge us toward empathy; they give us comfort and also pull us out of the prisons of our selves.
I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.
Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds. Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force.
Everything's uglier close up," she said. "Not you," I answered.
She said Robert Joyner had killed himself with a gun. And then I asked why, and then she told me that he was getting a divorce and was sad about it. ' 'Lots of people get divorces and don't kill themselves,' I said. 'I know,' she said, excitement in her voice. 'That's what I told her.
For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.
You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is.
It's fine," I repeated. And whatever. It was fine. It had to be.
When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff. ' Which is not a good insult at all, like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience.
Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.
I could be worse, you know. " "How?" I asked, teasing. "I mean, I have a work of calligraphy over my toilet that reads, 'Bathe yourself in the comfort of God's words,' Hazel. I could be way worse. " "Sounds unsanitary," I said.