John Green Knowing Quotations

She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.

There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another good day.

The not knowing would not keep me from caring.

There's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.

There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to. Someone who — because no one thought she was a person — had no one to really talk to.

I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool,' I answered.

But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.