John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
wikipedia share sharing-knowledge
Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.
twenties remember minutes
Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die?
telling-stories sitting my-friends
This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories.
my-best-friend olives fifth-grade
A small olive-skinned creature who had hit puberty but never hit it very hard, Ben had been my best friend since fifth grade, when we both finally owned up to the fact that neither of us was likely to attract anyone else as a best friend.
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.