Quotes From "Will Grayson Will Grayson" By John Green

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NO. No no no. I don't want to screw you. I just love you. When did who you want to screw become the whole game? Since when is the person you want to screw the only person you get to love? It's so stupid, Tiny! I mean, Jesus, who even gives a fuck about sex?! People act like it's the most important thing humans do, but come on. How can our sentient fucking lives revolve around something slugs can do. I mean, who you want to screw and whether you screw them? Those are important questions, I guess. But they're not that important. You know what's important? Who would you die for? Who do you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you? Whose drunken nose would you pick?! . John Green
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You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up.– Tiny Cooper David Levithan
He is both the source of my happiness and the...
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He is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. David Levithan
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When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed. John Green
Rolf! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing?...
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Rolf! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there for a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS. David Levithan
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Now, if there's anything stupider than buddy lists, its lol. if anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. i mean, it's not like anyone is laughing out loud about the things they lol. i think it should be spelled loll. like what a lobotomized person's tongue does. loll. loll. i can't think anymore. loll. loll! or ttyl. bitch, you're not actually talking. that would require actual vocal contact or <3. you honestly think that looks like a heart? if you do, that's only because you'v never seen scrotum. (rofl! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there a sec while i KICK YOUR ASS) . David Levithan
You know there's no such thing as a complete lie....
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You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there. David Levithan
He is both the source of my happiness and the...
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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. John Green
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Not to sound like a jerk, but Jane isn't really my type. Her hair's kinda disastrously curly and she mostly hangs out with guys. My type's a little girlier. And honestly, I don't even like my type of girl that much, let alone other types. Not that I'm asexual or something - I just find Romance Drama unbearable. John Green
Keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark,...
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Keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe... but failing to open the box doesn't kill the cat. John Green
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In my kind of falling, there’s no landing. There’s only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you’re falling, it’s the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends. David Levithan
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I want to say to her: i just want to be myself. and i want to be with someone who's just himself. that's all. i want to see through all the performance and all the pretending and get right to the truth. David Levithan
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Well, I agree that 'trial and error' is a pretty pessimistic name for it. And maybe that's what it is most of the time. But I think the point is that it's not just try-error. Most of the time, it's try-error-try. David Levithan
I can take everything on her face at face value,...
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I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend. David Levithan
Because you're my friend, wingnut.
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Because you're my friend, wingnut. John Green
When I was little, my dad used to tell me,...
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When I was little, my dad used to tell me, "Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose. John Green
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I'd pick you, I say. Fuck it, I do pick you. I want you to come over to my house in twenty years with your dud and your adopted kids and I want our fucking kids to hang out and I want to, like, drink wine and talk about the Middle East or whatever the fuck we're gonna want to do when we're old. We've been friends too long to pick, but if we could pick, I'd pick you. John Green
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It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else. John Green
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Tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you. David Levithan
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Still, what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? that if he got blue, i got black? that i hated those pills so much, because i knew how much i relied on them to live? John Green
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Weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be John Green
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I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time. John Green
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I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time John Green
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I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time. John Green
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Tiny is saying, "If you can't trust your gut then what can you trust?" And I say, "You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly, " which is true. Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does. John Green
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I think how much depends upon a best friend. When you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not. John Green
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You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose. John Green
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You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose. John Green
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... because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering must be endured stoically, says, "You feel what, Tiny?". John Green
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My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix. David Levithan
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I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. David Levithan
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You’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful. David Levithan
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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. John Green
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I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that. John Green
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Isaac knows how stupid i find these things, and he finds them just as stupid as i do. like lol. now, if there's anything stupider than buddy lists, it's lol. if anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. i mean, it's not like anyone's laughing out loud about the things they lol. i think it should be spelled loll, like what a lobotomized person's tongue does. loll. loll. i can't think any more. loll. loll! . David Levithan
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In the ensuing silence, I have the time to contemplate the word cute — how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, “Feel Bad About Yourself. John Green
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You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together. John Green
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Your professional physicist opinion?" I ask. She smiles. "I believe the cat to be alive. And what says my esteemed colleague?"" Alive, " I say. John Green
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It's like kissing a boy, finally, a boy David Levithan
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I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies. John Green
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She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn. John Green
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Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets. John Green
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I am like a dead begoniahanging upside down because like a dead begonia I don't give a fuck David Levithan
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I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas. John Green
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Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year-olds working ninety hours a week to deliver you that kind of top-quality witticism? There are boy bands with more original material. John Green
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His problems are so huge that your problems can just hide behind them. John Green
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I know what happens a the end of falling-landing John Green
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And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking. John Green
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Honestly, I don't even like my type of girl that much, let alone other types. Not that I'm asexual or something - I just find Romance Drama unbearable. John Green
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She’s adorable. ” “How would you know?” “I’m gay, not blind. Her hair’s all poofy and she’s got a great nose. I mean, a great nose. And, what? What do you people like? Boobs? She seems to have boobs. They seem to be of approximately normal boob size. What else do you want? John Green