Aza-holmes Quote by John Green Download Open image ““Yes, well, in that respect and many others, American high schools do rather resemble prisons.”” — John Green ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aza-holmes Chapter-two John-green Page-11 Respect Turtles-all-the-way-down
“In America we build prisons based on third-grade test scores. So, if the test scores in the area are bad we know we need… — Tuvia Tenenbom Copy Share Image
“building prisons is our number one social program for young men.” — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
“Instead of making prisoners out of our students, we ought to make students out of our prisoners.” — Paul W. Silver Copy Share Image
Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Not all prisons have bars. You should know that better than anyone, Princess.” — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
“So what indeed! The lesson I myself learned over and over again when teaching at the college and then the prison was the uselessness… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“prisons were built based on our third grade Iowa Basics test scores,” — Mark O'Neal Copy Share Image
“We have been spending far more for prison institutions than for higher education in the last 20 years. What does that say about our… — Christopher Zoukis Copy Share Image
Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future.” — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share Image
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -… — John Green Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
“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,… — John Green Copy Share Image
So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. — John Green Copy Share Image
“But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. Of course, you pretend… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You'd think solving mysteries would bring you closure, that closing the loop would comfort and quiet your mind. But it never does. The truth… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Dr. Karen Singh liked to say that a unwanted thought was like a car driving past you when you're standing on on the side… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And even though I laughed with them, it felt like I was watching the whole thing from somewhere else, like I was watching a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Holmesy, you okay?" Daisy asked. I nodded. Sometimes I wondered why she liked me, or at least tolerated me. Why any of them did.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“If taking a pill makes you different, lie, if it changes the way-down you...that's just a screwed-up idea, you know? Who's deciding what me… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Thoughts are just a different kind of bacteria, colonizing you. I thought about the gut-brain information axis. Maybe you're already gone. The prisoners run… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And if you can't pick what you do or think about, then maybe you aren't really real, you know? Maybe I'm just a lie… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Felt myself slipping, but even that's a metaphor. Descending, but that is, too. Forged in the smithy of someone else's soul. Please just let… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The problem with happy endings,” I said, “is that they’re either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I knew how disgusting I was. I knew. I knew now for sure. I wasn't possessed by a demon. I was the demon.” — John Green Copy Share Image