John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
ninja
The true ninja doesn't make a splash at all.
roots long alive
Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.
lungs
my lungs sucked at being lungs.
paradigm
You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me.
let-it-go want goes-on
I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.
reason primaries
Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.
study
Study broadly and without fear.
sentences
You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.
south-carolina bottles faces
Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.
wikipedia share sharing-knowledge
Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.
telling-stories sitting my-friends
This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories.
tongue should sunscreen
Ben's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally.
being-yourself mean boys
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?
being-yourself teenager lying
Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication.