John Goode > Quotes

“I don't remember the moment I knew I was broken...but I do know the moment I began to feel fixed. It was the day the green eyed boy fell in love with me.”
― John Goode, Maybe With a Chance of Certainty

“We are told in fairy tales that evil always loses and good eventually will triumph. That is what makes those stories so desirable to the general population. They want to believe that karma works and the bad guys are always defeated in the end. But in a world where no one thinks they are the bad guy and everyone plays the victim, it is harder and harder to find the black and the white of a situation. We are all the hero, and we are all the monster.”
― John Goode, Maybe With a Chance of Certainty

“I mean honestly, who just sits around in a house with a bunch of short guys waiting for their prince to come? So your mom is a bitch and wants to kill you because her mirror told her to? Cry me a river why don't you? Your big plan is sitting around cleaning house waiting for the other shoe to drop? And speaking of shoes, everyone has been picked on by mean girls. You do not wait for some old lady to pop in and transmogrify some innocent rodents just so you can sneak in to a dance under false pretenses. And let's say you do sneak in. For the love of all that is holy take your mask off and look the guy in the face and say. “Hi, I'm Cindy from down the street, I have this thing at midnight. Can we do coffee later?” This nonsense with a shoe and searching the entire village for one girl, it's crap.”
― John Goode, Maybe With a Chance of Certainty

“The thing about knowing you’re broken is that knowing is not enough to fix it.”
― John Goode, Taking Chances

“My parents were high school sweethearts, which is a term that means “too stupid to use a condom.”
― John Goode, Tales from Foster High

“Home is the prison you always return to.”
― John Goode

“Once upon a time there was a boy who didn’t get to fall in love. The End.”
― John Goode, Maybe With a Chance of Certainty

“Behind every strong man is a scared little boy wanting people to tell him it’s going to be okay. Remember that and men will no longer seem as stupid as you think they are.”
― John Goode

“If you live your life scared of what other people think, then you will always be miserable.”
― John Goode

“He came off so lost, which of course hit all my buttons because who doesn’t dream of finding an incredibly hot boy and fixing him? Straight guys may have cars and gadgets, but girls and gay boys, we like to fix broken boys.”
― John Goode, Distant Rumblings

“I had everything before I met you." he said, unable to make eye contact with me.

"Funny" I said with more sadness than anger in my voice. "I didn't have anything before I met you.”
― John Goode

“There is no happily ever after. There is just not miserable for now.”
― John Goode

“Okay, then, if you're sure," he said again and I almost blurted, "I'd consider hitting my mother in the back of the head with a snow shovel if kissing you was in the cards." But I though that would come off as needy.”
― John Goode, The Boy Behind the Red Door

“So it's possible I might be dating Batman.”
― John Goode, Raise Your Glass

“Love is the Novocaine that numbs the ache, the fizz that keeps the drink fresh, it is the sore on the top of your mouth you can't ignore and the prize at the bottom of the box that is worth nothing, yet makes you eat the whole box. Love is what love is and there is nothing else like it.

Except maybe heroin.”
― John Goode

“I swore to myself I would never be that guy, the guy who loses his shit for the first pretty face he sees. And yet my shit was truly lost.”
― John Goode, Distant Rumblings

“I didn’t want to be a victim, some princess locked away in a tower, waiting to be saved. I wanted to be the hero of my story; I didn’t need to be saved. At least I didn’t want to be.”
― John Goode, Tales from Foster High

“I didn’t have a life before you. All of that was… was just a waste of time.” I put my hand over his heart. “This, this is the first real thing I have ever felt.”
― John Goode, Tales from Foster High

“I am more a Star Wars person than Star Trek. Meaning most of my shit is made up and then later I come back and say I meant to do that from the start.”
― John Goode

“I watch Doctor Who, bitch.”
― John Goode, The Unseen Tempest

“We're all lonely, we're all hurt, and we're all broken, Jeremy. We are all broken”
― John Goode, 151 Days

“I realized I had moved from being a misfit in a culture I wasn’t a part of, to being a freak in a culture I was supposed to be in.”
― John Goode, The Boy Behind the Red Door

“SO it’s possible I might be dating Batman.”
― John Goode, Tales from Foster High

“Evil is simply the word for what someone else won't do.”
― John Goode

“Like my own personal sun, he was not only too radiant to look at directly, I also found myself more and more drawn into his orbit with each minute.”
― John Goode, Tales from Foster High

“I am single for the same reason that Patty Hearst stays out of banks.”
― John Goode

“For Kyle, thinking can just end up being destructive. It’s like he was always playing chess in his mind against himself for stakes that were so high they were damned frightening.”
― John Goode, Tales from Foster High

“So I sat there and thought about faking a heart attack so I could skip school for a few months. I mean, they wouldn’t let a kid with a weak heart deal with something as harsh as high school, would they?”
― John Goode, Tales from Foster High

“Lust is a lot like a slow brained dog. It slobbers a lot and jumps up on people at the most inopportune time.”
― John Goode

“See, this is the problem with cries for help. Even if people hear them, they can’t do a damn thing about them.”
― John Goode, Tales from Foster High