John Green

Author, YouTuber

John Green is a bestselling author known for his poignant explorations of love and loss in novels like 'The Fault in Our Stars.'

Born
August 24, 1977
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"I don't like reindeer. They seem like regular deer, only more dangerous."

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"If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane."

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"History doesn't have a curfew."

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"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."

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"Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die."

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"'Cause I'm just - I want to go to Amsterdam, and I want him to tell me what happens after the book is over, and I just don't want my particular life, and also the sky is depressing me, and there is this old swing set out here that my dad made for me when I was a kid.' 'I must see this old swing set of tears immediately,' he said. 'I'll be over in twenty minutes.'"

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"We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken."

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"Waffles are just awesome bread."

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"The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy."

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"Sometimes the way you think about someone isn't the way they actually are."

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"They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting."

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"At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too."

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"In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla."

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"You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are."

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"The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up."

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"It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."

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"Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that."

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