Amy Smith > Amy's Quotes

“No two persons ever read the same book.”
― Edmund Wilson

“[Writing is] like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“We all use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green

“We are greater than the sum of our parts.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.”
― John Green

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.”
― John Green

“Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.”
― John Green

“I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting.”
― John Green

“Maybe there`s something you´re afraid to say, or someone you´re afraid to love, or somewhere you´re afraid to go.
It´s gonna hurt. It´s gonna hurt because it matters.”
― John Green

“And I was left to ask, Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I assist your willful self-destruction? Because they are different crimes, and I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska