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Else Quotes by John Green
- In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie dream girl or…
- Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's…
- One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise-beyond-their-years creatures or…
- I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I…
- The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated discussion classes. I…
- But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was…
- Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else...But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only…
- It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.
- I'm sorry," she says. I wheel around. "You know, you're a total know-it-all. And it's incredibly rude sometimes; I mean, you're not perfect either, and…
- 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…
- 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…
- Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else
- I couldn’t help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching them—it was a kind of…
- What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know…
- We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone.
- I do love you and what else matters but that
- The minister said, “Let us pray,†but as everyone else bowed their head, I could only stare slack-jawed at the sight of Peter Van Houten.…
- Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And…
- I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.
- So how’s it going?†“Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?†“Yeah,†I said. “Sucks,†he said.…
More Else Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball
- When the lights don't glow the same way that they used to and I finally get a moment to myself, I will… — Drake
- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
- The angel brought you back." "Because you asked him to. You could have anything alse in the world, and you asked for… — Cassandra Clare
- It breaks your heart to see the one you love is happy with someone else, but it's more painful to know that… — Superman
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong