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Away Quotes by John Green
- We were kissing. I thought: This is good. I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad at all. I thought: I am…
- She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, okay. So what is it?" "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen…
- Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories fall apart, too.…
- 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…
- I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary,…
- It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.' 'Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said. 'It can be sort of…
- It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I…
- The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
- I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys…
- I didn't want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus.
- ...But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you.…
- Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's…
- This is what happens: somebody—girl usually—got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons. They…
- Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. So I…
- He wasn't perfect or anything. He wasn;t your fairytale prince charming or whatever. He tried to be like that sometimes,but i liked him best when…
- At least it was instant. At least there wasn't any pain." I knew he was only trying to help, but he didn't get it. There…
- There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward. All at once,…
- According to Maslow, I was stuck on the second level of the pyramid, unable to feel secure in my health and therefore unable to reach…
- I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...
More Away Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius