John Green Quotes

A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really.

I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.

Even though my first marriage broke up, I'd say that I've had two good marriages and two good men. I've been very lucky. I like to think it's karma because, in a relationship, I give 300 per cent. I'm straight with my men, and I like to think it comes back.

A relationship takes two people to make or break it.

Bayern and I are like a married couple.

The characteristic that every college football coach should look for in a wife is independence.

You can have a mate for 30 years, it's easy.

A long-term relationship is about showing up and working hard and banking on each other. If one's down, the other might be up and can help the other one up, and sometimes you're both down and you just [band] together. Endurance is a big theme of it for me. That might not sound romantic, but I kind of think that it is.

Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.

Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.

The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.

Your whole being is involved in taking care of someone else, worrying about what they think of you, how they treat you, how you can make them treat you better. Right now everyone in the world seems to think that they are codependent and that they come from dysfunctional families. They call it codependency. I call it the human condition.

And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his.

being with someone for over a year can mean that you love them … but it can also mean you’re trapped.

How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life. [Written to his wife, Mileva]

I believe in the institution loyalty and love, to stay with someone in good and hard times. I don't think a piece of paper or anything else can force you to do that. For many people get marry is super important, for me, the important thing is finding someone.

You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.

When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.

Being married, I would say most relationships are pretty codependent in some ways.

I don't think it's really possible to share someone in most cases.

Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work.

If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.

I believe that there is an important part of every human being that is defined in terms of their significant other: how we choose our partner, and how we behave when we are with them. And that is the part that interests me. How that part of the personality is forged doesn't just interest me, it fascinates me.

I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.