Knowing Quotes by John Green

11 Knowing quotes by John Green

Green’s thoughtful snippets on what it means to truly know something are gathered in eleven brief quotes. They blend his characteristic humor with earnest reflection.

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“There's no way of knowing that your last good day is your Last Good Day.”

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But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

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The not knowing would not keep me from caring.

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There's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.

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She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful…

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Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's…

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I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

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If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until…

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There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another…

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All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without…

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“And Colin thought: Because like say I tell someone about my feral hog hunt. Even if it's a dumb story, telling it…

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“I just want to stay away from people and read books and think”

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She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -…

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A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window.

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“No one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again.”

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Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea…

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“Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite NMH song,…

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“Praise God for good nurses.”

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So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I…

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Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.

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“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.”

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I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.

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“He was hot. A nonhotboy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a…

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I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually.

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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…

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