--- title: "17 Long time Quotes By John Green" description: "17 Long time quotes by John Green. Plus more from John Green and more Long time sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/138/john-green-12_children_hating-the-cool-kids-takes-an-awful-lot_3143426.jpg" --- > [“Hating the cool kids takes an awful lot of energy, and I'd given up on it a long time ago.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/hating-the-cool-kids-takes-an-awful-lot-of-energy-and-i-d-given-up-on/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/138/john-green-12_children_hating-the-cool-kids-takes-an-awful-lot_3143426.jpg) > [“I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/i-think-i-will-do-nothing-for-a-long-time-but-listen/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/271/john-green-12_communication_i-think-i-will-do-nothing-for-a-long-tim_2593998.jpg) > [“I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/i-ll-find-a-way-to-hang-around-and-annoy-you-for-a-long-time/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68d/john-green-12_annoy_i-ll-find-a-way-to-hang-around-and-annoy_815985.jpg) > [I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/i-ll-fight-it-i-ll-fight-it-for-you-don-t-you-worry-about-me-hazel/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f27/john-green-12_annoying_i-ll-fight-it-i-ll-fight-it-for-you-don_1247525.jpg) > [We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/we-just-sat-there-quiet-for-a-long-time-which-was-fine-and-i-was/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df9/john-green-12_fine_we-just-sat-there-quiet-for-a-long-time_906249.jpg) > [Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/before-i-got-here-i-thought-for-a-long-time-that-the-way-out-of-the-2/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d58/john-green-12_endless_before-i-got-here-i-thought-for-a-long-t_2853435.jpg) > [“Does it hurt?” I asked. “No. Just.” He stared at the ceiling for a long time before saying, “I like this world.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/does-it-hurt-i-asked-no-just-he-stared-at-the-ceiling-for-a-long-time/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd4/john-green-12_asked_does-it-hurt-i-asked-no-just-he-stared-a_2617173.jpg) > [“That's what my dad is like-he really disappeared a long time ago, which is maybe why it didn't bother me much. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/that-s-what-my-dad-is-like-he-really-disappeared-a-long-time-ago/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad6/john-green-12_adults_that-s-what-my-dad-is-like-he-really-dis_484980.jpg) > [“I look at Jane for a long time and a slow smile creeps over her face. Her whole face changes when she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/i-look-at-jane-for-a-long-time-and-a-slow-smile-creeps-over-her-face/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/180/john-green-12_long-time_i-look-at-jane-for-a-long-time-and-a-slo_2180326.jpg) > [I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/i-m-a-big-believer-in-pairing-classics-with-contemporary-literature/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/481/john-green-12_been_i-m-a-big-believer-in-pairing-classics-w_2577796.jpg) > [“I never wish I could go back and write more, no. I spent a long, long time trying to write the book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/i-never-wish-i-could-go-back-and-write-more-no-i-spent-a-long-long/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3a/john-green-12_book_i-never-wish-i-could-go-back-and-write-m_2601792.jpg) > [“what's really annoying is that you don't read any Chewie fanfic. If you did you'd know that Wookiee was not a language,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/what-s-really-annoying-is-that-you-don-t-read-any-chewie-fanfic-if/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/451/john-green-12_fanfic_what-s-really-annoying-is-that-you-don-t_2211907.jpg) > [“For the first time in a long time, I drive with no music. I'm not happy-not happy about Jane and Mr. Randall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/for-the-first-time-in-a-long-time-i-drive-with-no-music-i-m-not-happy/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/624/john-green-12_chapter-9_for-the-first-time-in-a-long-time-i-driv_2453390.jpg) > [“I reached down and squeezed his hand. "You are a good brother." He nodded. I could see in the gray light that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/i-reached-down-and-squeezed-his-hand-you-are-a-good-brother-he-nodded/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/973/john-green-12_astronomy_i-reached-down-and-squeezed-his-hand-you_1756920.jpg) > [“I reached down and squeezed his hand. "You are a good brother." He nodded. I could see in the gray light that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/i-reached-down-and-squeezed-his-hand-you-are-a-good-brother-he-nodded-2/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ed/john-green-12_astronomy_i-reached-down-and-squeezed-his-hand-you_2387698.jpg) > [“Pudge/Colonel: "I am sorry that I have not talked to you before. I am not staying for graduation. I leave for Japan…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/pudge-colonel-i-am-sorry-that-i-have-not-talked-to-you-before-i-am/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e9/john-green-12_accident_pudge-colonel-i-am-sorry-that-i-have-not_2648669.jpg) > [“Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/before-i-got-here-i-thought-for-a-long-time-that-the-way-out-of-the/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/658/john-green-12_colonel_before-i-got-here-i-thought-for-a-long-t_2188473.jpg) ## Other authors on Long time ## More by John Green > [Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/issac-i-dislike-living-in-a-world-without-augustus-waters-computer-i/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [“I just want to stay away from people and read books and think”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/i-just-want-to-stay-away-from-people-and-read-books-and-think/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/she-smiled-with-all-the-delight-of-a-kid-on-christmas-morning-and/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/a-margo-for-each-of-us-and-each-more-mirror-than-window/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [“No one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/no-one-ever-says-good-bye-unless-they-want-to-see-you-again/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/neither-novels-or-their-readers-benefit-from-any-attempts-to-divine/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/traffic-s-not-too-bad-on-sheridan-and-i-m-cornering-the-car-like-it-s/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [“Praise God for good nurses.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/praise-god-for-good-nurses/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/so-i-was-ugly-i-was-never-fat-really-and-i-never-wore-headgear-or-had/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/nothing-has-ever-looked-like-that-ever-in-all-of-human-history/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/said-to-him-quietly-as-if-i-couldn-t-hear-or-something-dad-was-about/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/i-believe-humans-have-souls-and-i-believe-in-the-conservation-of-souls/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [“He was hot. A nonhotboy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/he-was-hot-a-nonhotboy-stares-at-you-relentlessly-and-it-is-at-best/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/i-think-if-you-keep-the-box-closed-long-enough-you-do-kill-the-cat/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) > [Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/imagining-the-future-is-a-kind-of-nostalgia-you-spend-your-whole-life/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/long-time/john-green/#itemlist", "name": "17 Long time Quotes By John Green", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Hating the cool kids takes an awful lot of energy, and I'd given up on it a long time ago.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Green" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/hating-the-cool-kids-takes-an-awful-lot-of-energy-and-i-d-given-up-on/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/138/john-green-12_children_hating-the-cool-kids-takes-an-awful-lot_3143426.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/138/john-green-12_children_hating-the-cool-kids-takes-an-awful-lot_3143426.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/138/john-green-12_children_hating-the-cool-kids-takes-an-awful-lot_3143426.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Hating the cool kids takes an awful lot of energy, and I'd given up on it a long time ago.” — John Green", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Green" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/i-think-i-will-do-nothing-for-a-long-time-but-listen/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/271/john-green-12_communication_i-think-i-will-do-nothing-for-a-long-tim_2593998.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/271/john-green-12_communication_i-think-i-will-do-nothing-for-a-long-tim_2593998.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/271/john-green-12_communication_i-think-i-will-do-nothing-for-a-long-tim_2593998.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen.” — John Green", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Green" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/i-ll-find-a-way-to-hang-around-and-annoy-you-for-a-long-time/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68d/john-green-12_annoy_i-ll-find-a-way-to-hang-around-and-annoy_815985.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68d/john-green-12_annoy_i-ll-find-a-way-to-hang-around-and-annoy_815985.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68d/john-green-12_annoy_i-ll-find-a-way-to-hang-around-and-annoy_815985.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.” — John Green", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I'll fight it. 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Adults think they're wielding power, but really power is wielding them.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Green" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/that-s-what-my-dad-is-like-he-really-disappeared-a-long-time-ago/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad6/john-green-12_adults_that-s-what-my-dad-is-like-he-really-dis_484980.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad6/john-green-12_adults_that-s-what-my-dad-is-like-he-really-dis_484980.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad6/john-green-12_adults_that-s-what-my-dad-is-like-he-really-dis_484980.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“That's what my dad is like-he really disappeared a long time ago, which is maybe why it didn't bother me…” — John Green", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I look at Jane for a long time and a slow smile creeps over her face. 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I spent a long, long time trying to write the book that became The Fault in Our Stars and to be completely honest with you, I am entirely happy that the story is no longer my problem and is now your problem.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Green" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/i-never-wish-i-could-go-back-and-write-more-no-i-spent-a-long-long/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3a/john-green-12_book_i-never-wish-i-could-go-back-and-write-m_2601792.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3a/john-green-12_book_i-never-wish-i-could-go-back-and-write-m_2601792.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3a/john-green-12_book_i-never-wish-i-could-go-back-and-write-m_2601792.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I never wish I could go back and write more, no. I spent a long, long time trying to write the book that…” — John Green", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“what's really annoying is that you don't read any Chewie fanfic. If you did you'd know that Wookiee was not a language, it was a species. There were at least three Wookiee languages. Rey learned Shriiwook from Wookiees who came to Jakku, but she didn't usually speak it because Wookiees mostly understood Basic.\" I was laughing. \"And why are you using the past tense?\" \"Because all of this happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Holmesy. You always use the past tense when talking about Star Wars. Duh.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Green" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/what-s-really-annoying-is-that-you-don-t-read-any-chewie-fanfic-if/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/451/john-green-12_fanfic_what-s-really-annoying-is-that-you-don-t_2211907.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/451/john-green-12_fanfic_what-s-really-annoying-is-that-you-don-t_2211907.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/451/john-green-12_fanfic_what-s-really-annoying-is-that-you-don-t_2211907.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“what's really annoying is that you don't read any Chewie fanfic. If you did you'd know that Wookiee was not…” — John Green", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“For the first time in a long time, I drive with no music. I'm not happy-not happy about Jane and Mr. Randall Water Polo Doucheface IV, not happy about Tiny abandoning me without so much as a phone call, not happy about my insufficiently fake fake ID-but in the dark on Lake Shore with the car eating up all the sound, there's something about the numbness in my lips after having kissed her that I want to keep and hold onto, something in it that seems pure, that seems like the singular truth.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Green" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/for-the-first-time-in-a-long-time-i-drive-with-no-music-i-m-not-happy/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/624/john-green-12_chapter-9_for-the-first-time-in-a-long-time-i-driv_2453390.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/624/john-green-12_chapter-9_for-the-first-time-in-a-long-time-i-driv_2453390.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/624/john-green-12_chapter-9_for-the-first-time-in-a-long-time-i-driv_2453390.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For the first time in a long time, I drive with no music. I'm not happy-not happy about Jane and Mr. Randall…” — John Green", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I reached down and squeezed his hand. \"You are a good brother.\" He nodded. I could see in the gray light that he was crying a little. \"Thanks\", he said. \"i kind of just want to stay here in this particular instant for a really long time.\" \"Yeah\", I said. We settled into silence and I felt the sky's bigness above me, the unimaginable vastness of it all - looking at Polaris and realizing the light I was seeing was 425 years old, and then looking at Jupiter, less than a light-hour from us. In the moonless darkness, we were just witnesses to light, and I felt a sliver of what must have driven Davis to astronomy. There was a kind of relief in having your own smallness laid bare before you, and I realized something Davis must have already known: Spirals grow infinitely small the farther you follow them inward, but they also grow infinitely large the farther you follow them out. And I knew I would remember that feeling, underneath the split-up sky, back before the machinery of fate ground us into one thing or another, back when we could still be everything. I thought, lying there, that I might love him for the rest of my life. We did love each other - maybe we never said it, and maybe love was never something we were in, but it was something I felt. I loved him, and I thought, maybe I will never see him again and I will be stuck missing him, and isn't that so terrible. But it turn out not to be terrible, because i know the secret that the me lying beneath that sky could not imagine: I know that girl would go on, that she would grow up, have children and love them, that despite loving them she would get too sick to care for them, be hospitalized, get better, and then get sick again. I know a shrink would say, write it down, how you got here. So you would, and in writing it down you realize, love is not a tragedy or a failure, but a gift. You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person, and why. - But underneath those skies, your hand - no, my hand, no - our hand - in his, you don't know yet. You don't know that the spiral painting is in that box on your dining room table, with a Post-it note stuck to the back of the frame. You don't know that you will make a life, see it unbuilt and rebuilt.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Green" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/i-reached-down-and-squeezed-his-hand-you-are-a-good-brother-he-nodded/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/973/john-green-12_astronomy_i-reached-down-and-squeezed-his-hand-you_1756920.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/973/john-green-12_astronomy_i-reached-down-and-squeezed-his-hand-you_1756920.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/973/john-green-12_astronomy_i-reached-down-and-squeezed-his-hand-you_1756920.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I reached down and squeezed his hand. \"You are a good brother.\" He nodded. I could see in the gray light…” — John Green", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I reached down and squeezed his hand. \"You are a good brother.\" He nodded. I could see in the gray light that he was crying a little. \"Thanks\", he said. \"i kind of just want to stay here in this particular instant for a really long time.\" \"Yeah\", I said. We settled into silence and I felt the sky's bigness above me, the unimaginable vastness of it all - looking at Polaris and realizing the light I was seeing was 425 years old, and then looking at Jupiter, less than a light-hour from us. In the moonless darkness, we were just witnesses to light, and I felt a sliver of what must have driven Davis to astronomy. There was a kind of relief in having your own smallness laid bare before you, and I realized something Davis must have already known: Spirals grow infinitely small the farther you follow them inward, but they also grow infinitely large the farther you follow them out. And I knew I would remember that feeling, underneath the split-up sky, back before the machinery of fate ground us into one thing or another, back when we could still be everything. I thought, lying there, that I might love him for the rest of my life. We did love each other - maybe we never said it, and maybe love was never something we were in, but it was something I felt. I loved him, and I thought, maybe I will never see him again and I will be stuck missing him, and isn't that so terrible.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Green" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/i-reached-down-and-squeezed-his-hand-you-are-a-good-brother-he-nodded-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ed/john-green-12_astronomy_i-reached-down-and-squeezed-his-hand-you_2387698.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ed/john-green-12_astronomy_i-reached-down-and-squeezed-his-hand-you_2387698.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ed/john-green-12_astronomy_i-reached-down-and-squeezed-his-hand-you_2387698.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I reached down and squeezed his hand. \"You are a good brother.\" He nodded. I could see in the gray light…” — John Green", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Pudge/Colonel: \"I am sorry that I have not talked to you before. I am not staying for graduation. I leave for Japan tomorrow morning. For a long time, I was mad at you. The way you cut me out of everything hurt me, and so I kept what I knew to myself. But then even after I wasn't mad anymore, I still didn't say anything, and I don't even really know why. Pudge had that kiss, I guess. And I had this secret. You've mostly figured this out, but the truth is that I saw her that night, I'd stayed up late with Lara and some people, and then I was falling asleep and I heard her crying outside my back window. It was like 3:15 that morning, maybe, amd I walked out there and saw her walking through the soccer field. I tried to talk to her, but she was in a hurry. She told me that her mother was dead eight years that day, and that she always put flowers on her mother's grave on the anniversary but she forgot that year. She was out there looking for flowers, but it was too early-too wintry. That's how I knew about January 10. I still have no idea whether it was suicide. She was so sad, and I didn't know what to say or do. I think she counted on me to be the one person who would always say and do the right things to help her, but I couldn\"t. I just thought she was looking for flowers. I didn't know she was going to go. She was drunk just trashed drunk, and I really didn't think she would drive or anything. I thought she would just cry herself to sleep and then drive to visit her mom the next day or something. She walked away, and then I heard a car start. I don't know what I was thinking. So I let her go too. And I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.\" Takumi”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Green" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/pudge-colonel-i-am-sorry-that-i-have-not-talked-to-you-before-i-am/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e9/john-green-12_accident_pudge-colonel-i-am-sorry-that-i-have-not_2648669.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e9/john-green-12_accident_pudge-colonel-i-am-sorry-that-i-have-not_2648669.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e9/john-green-12_accident_pudge-colonel-i-am-sorry-that-i-have-not_2648669.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Pudge/Colonel: \"I am sorry that I have not talked to you before. I am not staying for graduation. I leave…” — John Green", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 17, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in a back corner of, the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home. But that only led to a lonely life accompanied only by the last words of the looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends, and a more-than minor life. And then i screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers. And there's no sugar-coating it: She deserved better friends. When she fucked up, all those years ago, just a little girl terrified. into paralysis, she collapsed into the enigma of herself. And I could have done that, but I saw where it led for her. So I still believe in the Great Perhaps, and I can believe in it spite of having lost her. Beacause I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart imperceptibly slowly, and I will forget, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and everyone but herself and her mom in those last moments she spent as a person. I know that she forgives me for being dumb and sacred and doing the dumb and scared thing. I know she forgives me, just as her mother forgives her. And here's how I know: I thought at first she was just dead. Just darkness. Just a body being eaten by bugs. I thought about her a lot like that, as something's meal. What was her-green eyes, half a smirk, the soft curves of her legs-would soon be nothing, just the bones I never saw. I thought about the slow process of becoming bone and then fossil and then coal that will, in millions of years, be mined by humans of the future, and how they would their homes with her, and then she would be smoke billowing out of a smokestack, coating the atmosphere. I still think that, sometimes. I still think that, sometimes, think that maybe \"the afterlife\" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe she was just a matter, and matter gets recycled. But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take Alaska's genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. There is something else entirety. There is a part of her knowable parts. And that parts has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed. Although no one will ever accuse me of being much of a science student, One thing I learned from science classes is that energy is never created and never destroyed. And if Alaska took her own life, that is the hope I wish I could have given her. Forgetting her mother, failing her mother and her friends and herself -those are awful things, but she did not need to fold into herself and self-destruct. Those awful things are survivable because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. When adults say \"Teenagers think they are invincible\" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. So I know she forgives me, just as I forgive her. Thomas Eidson's last words were: \"It's very beautiful over there.\" I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "John Green" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/before-i-got-here-i-thought-for-a-long-time-that-the-way-out-of-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/658/john-green-12_colonel_before-i-got-here-i-thought-for-a-long-t_2188473.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/658/john-green-12_colonel_before-i-got-here-i-thought-for-a-long-t_2188473.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/658/john-green-12_colonel_before-i-got-here-i-thought-for-a-long-t_2188473.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did…” — John Green", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/long-time/john-green/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/long-time/john-green/", "name": "Long time Quotes by John Green", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/long-time/john-green/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/138/john-green-12_children_hating-the-cool-kids-takes-an-awful-lot_3143426.jpg" }, "description": "17 Long time quotes by John Green. 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