Let It Snow Quotes

“We just did an awesome job of not dying.”
― John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it.”
― John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.”
― John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“I responded to this development with the kind of sophisticated language for which I am famous. "Crap crap crap crap crap crap crap stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid crap.”
― John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“Debbie had to get up and slice me a thick piece of cake before she could answer. And I do mean thick. Harry Potter volume seven thick. I could have knocked out a burglar with this piece of cake. Once I tasted it, though, it seemed just the right size.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow

“Christmas is never over,unless you want it to be... Christmas is a state of mind.”
― Lauren Myracle, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“One person's crazy is another person's sane, I guess.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“Lady and gentleman, when my parents left Korea with nothing but the clothes on their backs and the considerable wealth they had amassed in the shipping business, they had a dream. They had a dream that one day amid the snowy hilltops of western North Carolina, their son would lose his virginity to a cheerleader in the woman's bathroom of a Waffle House just off the interstate. My parents have sacrificed so much for this dream! And that is why we must journey on, despite all trials and tribulations! Not for me and least of all for the poor cheerleader in question, but for my parents and indeed for all immigrants who came to his great nation in what they themselves could never have: CHEERLEADER SEX.”
― John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“Maybe you've never fallen into a frozen stream. Here's what happens.
1. It is cold. So cold that the Department of Temperature Acknowledgment and Regulation in you brain gets the readings and says, "I can't deal with this. I'm out of here." It puts up the OUT TO LUNCH sign and passes all responsibility to the...
2. Department of Pain and the Processing Thereof, which gets all this gobbledygook from the temperature department that it can't understand. "This is so not our job," it says. So it just starts hitting random buttons, filling you with strange and unpleasant sensations, and calls the...
3. Office of Confusion and Panic, where there is always someone ready to hop on the phone the moment it rings. This office is at least willing to take some action. The Office of Confusion and Panic loves hitting buttons.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“Sometimes when we forget to do things for others, it's because we're too wrapped up in our own problems.”
― Lauren Myracle, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really.”
― John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.”
― John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.”
― John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can't worsen.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“I followed your footsteps," he said, in answer to the unspoken question. "Snow makes it easy."
I had been tracked, like a bear.
"Sorry to make you go to all that trouble," I said.
"I didn't have to go that far, really. You're about three streets over. You just kept going in loops."
A really inept bear.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“We study there a lot because... what other choice does society give us, right? It's Starbucks or death, sometimes.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“Just then, my phone started ringing. The ring must have been damaged by the water as well, so now it had a high, keening note - kind of the sound I imagine a mermaid might make if you punched her in the face.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“It's always awkward when someone doesn't realize you're joking and devotes thought time to what you've said. Double that when the person is wearing tinfoil.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“I stood under the awning for a moment, but finally I decided that being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.”
― John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“Don't make fun of her," the Duke said. "She needs gentle encouragement. Carla, baby, we love you. You are such a good car. And we believe in you one hundred percent."
...
"Don't listen to him, Carla. You're gonna do this."
...
"I love you, Carla. You know that, don't you? I wake up every morning and the first thing I think is that I love Tobin's mom's car. I know that's weird, baby, but I do. I love you. And I know you can do this."
...
"Carla," the Duke said, "it's time to tell you the truth. I'm in love with you. I want to be with you, Carla. I've never felt this way about a c-”
― John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“I laughed and pointed out that "Hash Browns Mean Nothing Without You" was a pretty good name for a band.
"Or a song," the Duke said, and then she started singing all glam rock, a glove up to her face holding an imaginary mic as she rocked out an a cappella power ballad. "Oh, I deep fried for you / But now I weep 'n' cry for you / Oh, babe, this meal was made for two / And these hash browns mean nothing, oh these hash browns mean nothing, yeah these HASH BROWNS MEAN NOTHIN' without you.”
― John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“I can sleep like a champion. I once slept through a smoke alarm going off. For three hours. In my bedroom.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“Were you playing with Stuart?" she asked.
The question was loaded. I was a filthy, filthy woman, and even the five-year-old knew it.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“Proximity doesn't breed familiarity.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“Tobin," Mom said disapprovingly. She wasn't a particularly funny person. It suited her professionally - I mean, you don't want your cancer surgeon to walk into the examination room and be like, "Guy walks into a bar. Bartender says, 'What'll ya have?' And the guy says, 'Whaddya got?' And the bartender says, 'I don't know what I got, but I know what you got: Stage IV melanoma.”
― John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“One thing," I said, when we had broken apart and the swirling feeling in my head subsided. "Maybe...don't tell your mom too much about this. I think she has ideas."
"What?" he asked, all innocence, as he put an arm around my shoulders and led me back toward his house. "Don't your parents cheer and stare when you make out with someone? Is that weird where you come from? I guess they don't get to see it much, though. From jail, I mean."
"Shut it, Weintraub. If I knock you down in the snow, these kids will swarm and eat you.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances