Hello. Here is a list of 21 quotes that I liked and saved while reading Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green. I hope you will like them too. By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
Turtles All the Way Down Quotes
- Your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. Of course, you pretend to be the author. – Quote from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
- By cell count, humans are approximately 50 percent microbial, meaning that about half of the cells that make you up are not yours at all. There are something like a thousand times more microbes living in my particular biome than there are human beings on earth, and it often seems like I can feel them living and breeding and dying in and on me. – Quote from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
- It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see. – Quote from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
- True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice in the matter. – Quote from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
- The whole problem with boys is that ninety-nine percent of them are, like, okay. If you could dress and hygiene them properly, and make them stand up straight and listen to you and not be dumbasses, they’d be totally acceptable. – Quote from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
- I’m such a billionaire without the billions. I have the soul of a private jet owner, and the life of a public transportation rider. It’s a real tragedy. – Quote from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
- Welcome to the future. It’s not about hacking computers anymore; it’s about hacking human souls. – Quote from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
- Wealth is careless – so around it, you must be careful. – Quote from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
- Most adults are just hollowed out. You watch them try to fill themselves up with booze or money or God or fame or whatever they worship, and it all rots them from the inside until nothing is left but the money or booze or God they thought would save them. […] Adults think they’re wielding power, but really power is wielding them. – Quote from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
- One of the defining features of parents is that they don’t get paid to love you. – Quote from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
- Reading someone’s poetry is like seeing them naked. – Quote from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
- I like short poems with weird rhyme schemes, because that’s what life is like. It rhymes, but not in the way you expect. – Quote from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
- When you’re on a Ferris wheel all anyone ever talks about is being on the Ferris wheel and the view from the Ferris wheel and whether the Ferris wheel is scary and how many more times it will go around. Dating is like that. Nobody who’s doing it ever talks about anything else. – Quote from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
- What I love about science is that as you learn, you don’t really get answers. You just get better questions. – Quote from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
- The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and you turn out to be terrible company. – Quote from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
- You never think much about weather when it’s good, but once it gets cold enough to see your breath, you can’t ignore it. The weather decides when you think about it, not the other way around. – Quote from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
- In the best conversations, you don’t even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. – Quote from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
- Thoughts are just a different kind of bacteria, colonizing you. – Quote from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
- Nobody gets anybody else, not really. We’re all stuck inside ourselves. – Quote from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
- The madness of wealth. Sometimes you think you’re spending money, but all along the money’s spending you. – Quote from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
- The problem with happy endings, is that they’re either not really happy, or not really endings. – Quote from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green