"I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

"The town was paper, but the memories were not."
— John Green (Paper Towns)

"Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college."
— John Green (Paper Towns)

"And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're together again."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

"Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it"
— John Lennon

""Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that i was not lost, but home.""
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together."
— John Green

"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."
— John Berger

"Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
I get high with a little help from my friends
Gonna try with a little help from my friends"
— Beatles

"Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but her story and mine are different now. It wasn't easy for me to accept this simple truth, because there was a time when our stories were the same, but that was six years and two lifetimes ago."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

"I've been burdened by questions I've asked myself a thousand times since the last time we were together.
Why did I do it? And would I do it again?
It was I, you see, who ended it."
— Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

"And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together."
— John Green (Paper Towns)

"Margo glanced at her watch and help up two fingers. We waited. And for those two minutes we just stared at each other, and I watched the blue in her eyes. It was nice--in the dark and the quiet, with no possibility of me saying anything to screw it up, and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing."
— John Green (Paper Towns)

"When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think"
— Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society: The Screenplay)

"Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids."
— John Steinbeck (East of Eden)

"You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone."
— John Madden

"Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!"
— John Fante

"Margo glanced at her watch and held up two fingers. We waited. And for those two minutes we just stared at each other, and I watched the blue in her eyes. It was nice--in the dark and the quiet, with no possibility of me saying anything to screw it up, and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing."
— John Green (Paper Towns)

"Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action."
— 1 John 3:18 NRSV

"I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied."
— Kate Cary (Bloodline)

"Only then did I see. Something was amiss with Patrick's snap-on one piece, or "onesie" as we manly dads like to call it. His chubby thighs, I now realized, were squeezed into the armholes, which were so tight they must have been cutting off his circulation. The collared neck hung between his legs like an udder. Up top, Patrick's head stuck out through the unsnapped crotch, and his arms were lost somewhere in the billowing pant legs. It was quite a look."
— John Grogan (Marley & Me Illustrated Edition: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog)

"He was born to be WWE Champion

[talking about John Cena]"
— Mr Mcmahon

"I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style. It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay."
— John Waters

"You're damned if you can't forgive, Jude."
— Clive Barker

"As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler."
— Izaak Walton (The Compleat Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation)

"My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior -- BEFORE the Reformation."
— John Waters

"We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth."
— John Hodgman

"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid."
— Various

"For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John."
— C.S. Lewis (The Problem of Pain)

"I did best when I had least truth for my subjects."
— John Donne (The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne)

"It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound."
— John Irving (A Widow for One Year)

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
John Adams
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— John Adams

""No matter what they ever do to us, we must always act for the love of our people and the earth. We must not react out of hatred against those who have no sense." "
— John Trudell

"" Carpe diem.Seize the day, boys.
Make your lives extraordinary " "
— John Keating (Dead Poets Society)

"John McCain’s plan to balance the budget by 2013 may have just taken the prize for Most Ridicule Sustained in a 24-Hour Period. (Before that, McCain's and Clinton’s gas-tax holiday proposals held the title.) The biggest gripe: It’s hard to see how McCain would sustain the Bush tax cuts, which the CBO estimates would create a $443 billion deficit by 2013, and still find room for his estimated $300 billion in additional tax proposals while also eliminating the deficit."
— Christopher Beam

"untitled

flying's not so great
i'd much rather
masturbate"
— poor sparrow

""Now listen lads, I'm not happy with our tackling. We're hurting them but they keep getting up.""
— John B. Keane

"Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes."
— John Keats

"JFK's great virtue, and the essential difference between him and George W. Bush, was that he had an instinctive appreciation for the chaotic forces of history."
— Michael Dobbs (One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War)

"jack spicer looks like john wayne gacy"
— Brian Opaquefield