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Been Quotes by John Green
- What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful…
- It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I thought about how wonderfully strange it…
- And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but…
- Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together." What?" Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud." That's who you really like. The people…
- As I followed Margo's directions through the maze of one-way streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting on benches, but…
- So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya's name…
- I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I…
- I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow.…
- When it comes to girls (and in Colin's case, it so often did), everyone has a type. Colin Singleton's type was not physical but linguistic:…
- I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all the small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. But,…
- And I vaguely remember her smiling at me from the door way the glittering ambiguity of a girls smile, which seems to promise an answer…
- These little contradictions are in all of us. They're in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake for 30 hours…
- Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked…
- A small olive-skinned creature who had hit puberty but never hit it very hard, Ben had been my best friend since fifth grade, when we…
- All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she…
- It was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. I wanted to be the last one she loved. And I knew I wasn’t.…
- maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.
- I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train…
- There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.
- I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did…
- I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the…
- The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant…
- Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was…
- I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.
- Ma'am," Augustus said, nodding toward her, "Your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back…
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour