John Green Want Quotations

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.

The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have too much cliché wrapped around it.

Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such things is a valuable part of being a person.

I didn't want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus.

Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn't really emotionally ready to write about at ten.' 'Fair enough,' I say. 'But in the revision, I want to get some action.

I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?

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

I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance...

I don't really want to be the costar of anyone's life.

My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn’t want to but I did.

I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.

Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper

I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural.

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.

Did I help you to a fate you didn't want?

You don't want romantic advice from me, you want romantic advice from Edward Cullen. I completely understand but he is completely unavailable right now and I'll tell you why. He doesn't exist.

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. i have to believe that’s a sign.

That's why people grow weary of listening to Dumpees obsess over their troubles: getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afterward, you're devastated and their relieved; it's over for them and just starting for you.

The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.

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.

But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.

I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.

And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.

I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.

I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.

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 we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.

Don’t make stuff because you want to make money - it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous - because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people - and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.