John Quotes

So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.

You can do anything you like, it's all fiction.

Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's something you just are.

The amazing thing is that we're right to hold onto hope. The world may be broken but hope is not crazy.

We think that we are invincible because we are.

And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long.

I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in.

You may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that's when you get shot down.

Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.

The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don’t know, all possible outcomes feel as if they are happening.

Nothing really ever happens like you imagine it will.

Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever.

We only have so long to play in the dirt and ask questions of rivers.

YOU are valuable and rare and worthy of love.

Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.

Coal miners don't get coal miners' block.

Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou

She would stay on the road and in hiding, a balloon floating through the sky, eating up hundreds of miles a day with a help of the perpetual tailwind.

If I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?

what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it’s like to work so hard to make sure everyone’s happy, and to have not a single person recognize it

It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy.

I stood under the awning for a moment, but finally I decided that being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.

But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.

To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved.

At least I carpe'd that one diem.

Just spend a few more months playing video games. That hand-eye coordination will come in handy when you get to third base.

If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.

At what point does a man turn into a monster? I don’t believe that it’s when he does horrible things, but when he accepts that he’s able to do them, and that he does them well.

The child must teach the man.

O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

And light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom In sweet relief.

The point of a notebook is to jumpstart the mind.

Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track.

Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.

It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.

Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.

I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.

I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams.

Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.

I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.

Poverty is a great equalizer

The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.

Michael Harvey should be read by all.

The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.

I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.

We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.

I have so much to do! And there's so little time!

God is what's good in me.