John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
driving unsafe
Your driving is unpleasant, but it isn't technically unsafe.
real house answers
Are you currently at your house?" he asked. "Um, no," I said. "That was a trick question. I knew the answer, because I am currently at your house.
swings problem ninety
We gotta do something about this frigging swing set,' he said. 'I'm telling you, it's ninety percent of the problem.
water augustus wanted
The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.
sacrifice compassion voice
The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,' he said. 'And even after that, when the robots recall the human absurdities of sacrifice and compassion, they will remember us.
good-day gus lasts
Anyway, that was the last good day I had with Gus until the Last Good Day.
real drinking people
I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.
good-life hands wind
Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus squeezed my hand. "It is a good life, Hazel Grace.
believe knowing adults
I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.
relationship space phones
And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.
pain real green
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
mom dad asking
What can we do?" Mom asked again. I shrugged. But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until I just kind of crawled across the couch into her lap and my dad came over and held my legs really tight and I wrapped my arms all the way around my mom's middle and they held on to me for hours while the tide rolled in.
real mutation care
You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.
hands ducks together
Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I was wondering what ontologically meant. Regardless, I liked it. Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses.