#green

We made love like green is blue. That’s because we were only half into it, though for the record I was the blue and she was the disinterested yellow.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#color #colors #disinterest #funny #green

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. So I looked him over as Patrick acknowledged for the thousandth time his ball-lessness etc. and soon it was a staring contest. After a while the boy smiled, and then finally his blue eyes glanced away. When he looked back at me, I flicked my eyebrows up to say, I win. ↗

— John Green

#tfios #the-fault-in-our-stars #business

What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV. ↗

— John Green

#colin-singleton #john-green #life

But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#talk #world #life

We made love outdoors—without a roof, I like most, without stove, my favorite place, assuming the weather be fair and balmy, and the earth beneath be clean. Our souls intertwined and dripping with dew, and our love for each other was seen. Our love for the world was new. ↗

— Roman Payne

#desire #green-eyes #lamb #making-love #malta

there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars ↗

— John Green

#human-nature #john-green #stars #the-fault-in-our-stars #nature

As we rode slowly through the battle camp, the sounds and smells of war overwhelmed my senses: horses stamping and sweating in anticipation; men shouting; the steady rhythm of metal grinding on stone; leather snapping and buckling, and woo d crackling in flame. The simmering energy of warriors as they eagerly awaited battle slithered through the camp like an invisible serpent ↗

— Virginia Chandler

#arthurian-legend #gawain #green-knight #men

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#musician #musician

You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up. ↗

— Daniel Handler

#movies

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey? ↗

— John Green

#leaving #paper-towns #sad #journey