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John Green

(1977–2010) Young Adult Author United Kingdom

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John Green was a young adult author from the United Kingdom.

Quick Facts About John Green

Born: August 24, 1977
Died: August 15, 2010
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Young Adult Author
Notable works: Recollections of a Private of the 68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot During the Walcheren Expedition and the Peninsular War, 1806-15

About John Green

John Michael Green is an American author and YouTuber. His books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide, including The Fault in Our Stars (2012), which is one of the best-selling books of all time. Green's rapid rise to fame and idiosyncratic voice are credited with creating a major shift in the young adult fiction market. Green is also well known for his work in online video, most notably his YouTube ventures with his younger brother Hank Green.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by John Green

Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause

Augustus

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

Books

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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…

Alaska

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

Mirrors

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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…

Assumption

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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…

Cities-spaces-places

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“Praise God for good nurses.”

God

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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…

Boys

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

Hipster

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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.

Augustus waters

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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.…

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

Boxes

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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…

Inspirational

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“It’s not about hacking computers anymore; it’s about hacking human souls.”

Computers

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“I feel very lucky to know you - and as far as I have seen, to know you is to love you.”

Love

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“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who…

Old man

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“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn’t bare the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn’t bear the thought of…

Afterlife

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“It never seemed like the right time. But of course, it never is the right time.”

Right time

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“yearn for halcyon days of yore”

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All salvation is temporary

Salvation

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“I don’t know who she is anymore, or who she was, but I need to find her”

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Waffles аrе јust awesome bread.

Bread

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“Losing your co-remember meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had…

Memory

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John Green by topic

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