Abby Green Quotes

Siena DePiero...will you do me the honour of becoming my wife? Because you're in my head and my heart and my soul, and you have been for five years - ever since I first saw you. First you were a fascination, then you became an obsession, and now...I love you. The thought of you being in this world but not with me is more terrifying than anything I've ever known. So, please...will you marry me? ~ Abby Green

He was the epitome of virile beauty, but with that undeniable edge of something dark and dangerous beneath. ~ Abby Green

I wanted to do this properly, but I look at you and I forget... ~ Abby Green

WHERE THERE IS LOVE THERE IS NO EFFORT ~ David Green

The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.' ~ Tim Jackson

One of the points of being alive is we get to pay attention. We get to both participate in and observe this weird universe that is simultaneously like stunningly elegant and completely heartless. ~ John Green

Before last night, the most action I had gotten was from a down pillow. ~ Abby Sher

We told Mom about the Anne Frank House, leaving out the kissing.
"Did you go back to chez Van Houten afterward?" Mom asked.
Augustus didn't even give me time to blush.
"Nah, we just hung out at a café. Hazel amused me with some Venn diagram humor."
He glanced at me. God, he was sexy. ~ John Green

Since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever i turn on the tv there will be a law & order episode. this ~ John Green

I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete. ~ Abby Wambach

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life. ~ Green Day

I am like a tree that looks dead to the world, but when you climb to the very top, you find bright green limbs sucking sap one hundred feet from the ground. And you discover the tree is very much alive, and is keeping its secret of life from the world. ~ Ned Hayes

... but it is the nature of stars to cross ~ John Green

I'm on a side of a road somewhere, stuck in the middle of a very deep hole, with no way of getting out. Never mind how I got in there, it's not relevant to the story. I'll invent a back-story… I was walking to get pizza and a chasm opened up in the earth and I fell in, and now I'm at the bottom of this hole, screaming for help. And along comes you. Now, maybe you just keep walking. You know, there's a strange guy screaming from the center of the Earth. It's perhaps best to just ignore him. But let's say that you don't. Let's say that you stop. The sensible thing to do in this situation is to call down to me and say "I'm going to look for a ladder. I will be right back." But you don't do that. Instead you sit down at the edge of this abyss, and then you push yourself forward, and jump. And when you land at the bottom of the hole and dust yourself off, I'm like "What the hell are you doing?! Now there are two of us in this hole!" And you look at me and say, "Well yeah, but now I'm highly motivated to get you out." This is what I love about novels, both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are ~ John Green

I find many adults are put off when young children pose scientific questions. Why is the Moon round? the children ask. Why is grass green? What is a dream? How deep can you dig a hole? When is the world's birthday? Why do we have toes? Too many teachers and parents answer with irritation or ridicule, or quickly move on to something else: 'What did you expect the Moon to be, square?' Children soon recognize that somehow this kind of question annoys the grown-ups. A few more experiences like it, and another child has been lost to science. Why adults should pretend to omniscience before 6-year-olds, I can't for the life of me understand. What's wrong with admitting that we don't know something? Is our self-esteem so fragile? ~ Carl Sagan

It's not pressure. It's responsibility We put it on ourselves. ~ Abby Wambach

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. ~ Julien Green

I said nothing - I hadn't known Marya, and anyway, "listening quietly" was my general social strategy ~ John Green

I think she and I were talking about how much I adored skateboarding on the computer but how it would never even occur to me to try and step on a skateboard in real life, and then she said, 'Let's play Truth or Dare' and then you fucked her."
"Wait, you fucked her? In front of the Colonel?" Takumi cried.
"I didn't fuck her. ~ John Green

He wasn't even a man.
He was a six-foot-seven behemoth of hotness. A fae warrior king who was frustrating, implacable, Powerful with a capital P, and fiercely noble in a way she'd never encountered.
Every time she looked into his spring-green eyes, her belly fluttered.
Actually fluttered.
Rose wanted him.
And for once, she didn't feel like giving up so easily. ~ S. Young

How about I call you when I finish this?"
"But you don't even have my phone number," he said.
"I strongly suspect you write it in the book. ~ John Green

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important. ~ Julien Green

If we can't love our one and only home, what can we love? If we're unwilling to defend what we love, then what are we? ~ Michael Carter

You're here! She repeated, wrapping her arms around his neck and her legs
around his hips. He'd dropped his bags as she'd ran, and now he cupped her bottom in his large hands ... His heart gave a giant thump, all the way down from his chest to his stomach,
and as she smiled up at him he lowered his head and devoured her mouth,
smile and all. Her lips were just as warm, and just as soft as he remembered, and her mouth tasted like peaches and cinnamon and Corinne Carol-Anne and without thought he pushed her back against the hallway wall and kissed her and kissed her and kissed her as though all their time apart would disappear in that frantic mating of tongue and lips and teeth. He wanted to take her into himself, all of her, and keep her warm and safe and happy, just like this moment when she
burst with joy, just to see him.
Wounded
(Green and Cory, after being apart) ~ Amy Lane

Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep: And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass is green, lakes damp, and mountains steep And, Wordsworth, both are thine. ~ William Wordsworth

Like most cancer survivors, lived with uncertainty. ~ John Green

He thought that maybe when you're making your way forward into your life, it just looks higgledy-piggledy, the way, if you were a fly walking across one of Beautiful Girl's drawings all you'd be able to see was green, then blue, then yellow. Only if you got in the air before the swat came down would you see the colors belonged to a big drawing, with the green for this part of the picture, the blue and yellow for others, every color being just where if was meant to be. Could that be what life was? ~ Rachel Simon

Take this neat little equation here. It tells me all the ways an electron can make itself comfortable in or around an atom. That's the logic of it. The poetry of it is that the equation tells me how shiny gold is, how come rocks are hard, what makes grass green, and why you can't see the wind. And a million other things besides, about the way nature works. ~ Richard Feynman

May the pigs of fate fly you safely home. ~ John Green

People always get used to beauty ~ John Green

Anyway, that was the last good day I had with Gus until the Last Good Day. ~ John Green

Hearts are made of something much tougher. It's unbreakable, and you can reshape it anytime you like. Hearts are made to a secret formula. ~ Kerstin Gier

The weeping willows, on the other hand, are evocative of death. They are a little contrived, a little exaggerated, still green in the middle of all the colors of autumn, and there is a human pathos to them. ~ Joseph Roth

Every day Fu-shee, the smaller children, and I fan out in the hills around Green Dragon to strip trees of their bark and leaves, dig up roots and search for wild grass. We'll eat anything, and we have. But you can't eat a leather belt like it's a crisp cucumber. You soak it, boil it, and chew on it for days. ~ Lisa See

Whats the point of being alive, if you dont at least try to do something reliable ~ John Green

Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Rio is an energetic, vibrant place, full of beauty and nature. But we face the kinds of problems any developing metropolis does - with pollution, traffic congestion, poverty. Distribution of green areas, for example, is not uniform. Madureira, the heart of the suburb in Rio, is a concrete jungle. ~ Eduardo Paes

I don't believe in e-mail. I rarely use a cell phone and I don't have a fax. ~ Seth Green

There was a reek in her nose, a slick dark green smell of water that was old enough to be clever and dangerous. ~ Frances Hardinge

Once you get over the simple unpleasantness of it - I suspect most people would gag, the first time - it is easier to wipe somebody else's bum than it is your own, because you can see what you're doing and use both hands at once if necessary. The whole process is much more efficient and uses no more toilet paper than is strictly required, so it's better for the environment, too. If we were really green we'd all have somebody else wipe our bums, though I can't see it catching on. ~ Iain Banks