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I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is
the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas. -- John Green
Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die. -Alaska Young -- John Green
Books are a weird collaboration between author and reader: You trust me to tell a good story, and I trust you to bring it to good life in your mind. -- John Green
Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC.
NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few seconds later.
I mean, he's blind. So that's unfortunate. -- John Green
In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them. -- John Green
I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time. -- John Green
You can't burn down a made-up place. -- John Green
But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does. -- John Green
She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own. -- John Green
We'll now hear a few words from Augustus's special friend, Hazel." Special friend? There were some titters in the audience, so I figured it was safe for me to start out by saying to the minister, "I was his girlfriend." That got a laugh. -- John Green
Our City has a rich history, even though many tourists are only wanting to see the Red Light District. Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most peopke find sin. - taxi driver -- John Green
Maura (fucking witch ass bitch Mussolini Al Qaeda darth vader non-entity) -- John Green
Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. -- John Green
Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou -- John Green
You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life. -- John Green
I told myself that imagining a met in my brain or my shoulder would not affect the invisible reality going on inside of me, and that therefore all such thoughts were wasted moments in a life composed of a definitionally finite set of such moments. -- John Green
It doesn't matter how long we've used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really, really awesome, whereas ebooks - at least so far - are fairly limited in their awesomeness. -- John Green
And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I'd done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me. -- John Green
This is what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. -- John Green
I lit up like a Christmas tree-Augustus Waters -- John Green
I think most of us would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich we would be doing something else. -- John Green
Where is my chance to be somebody's Peter Van Houten?' He hit the steering wheel weakly, the car honking as he cried. He leaned his head back, looking up. 'I hate myself I hate myself I hate this I hate this I disgust myself I hate it I hate it I hate it just let me fucking die. -- John Green
I hadn't been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed. -- John Green
Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented. -- John Green
The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic -- John Green
The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence. -- John Green
There's no romance in geometry," Lindsey answered.
"Just you wait. -- John Green
Ben starts. "I Spy with my little eye something I really like."
"Oh I know," Radar says. "It's the taste of balls."
"No."
"Is it the taste of penises?" I guess.
"No, dumbass."
"Hmm," says Radar. "Is it the smell of balls?"
"The texture of balls? -- John Green
Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there. -- John Green
And it occurred to Colin that the kiss didn't feel nearly as good as the sound of her asking him if he wanted to be her boyfriend. -- John Green
You're not going to ask about your boyfriend?" she asked.
"Don't have one," I told her.
"Well, there's a kid who has hardly left the waiting room since you got here," she said. -- John Green
No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression? -- John Green
It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down all around your canal-side dinner table. -- John Green
Hey, guys, do you remember that time I was double-seat-belted in the wayback and the door flew open and the beer fell out but I survived completely uninjured? How is that even possible? -- John Green
Thank you for letting me hijack your wish', I said.
'Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa, he said. -- John Green
Nuts, arms, stomachs -- they never hurt. All hurt is brain hurt. -- John Green
So what was it like?" she asked. "Having your boyfriend die? Um, it sucks." "No," she said. "Being in love. -- John Green
And on that thin-mooned night, I could see little more than her silhoutte except for when she smoked, the burning cherry of the cigarette washing her face in pale red light. -- John Green
and when you were ready, i'd kiss you once and lift myself away, sit back on your bed and wait for you there, just so we could lie there, and you could hold me, and i could hold you -- John Green
It's not because I want to make out with her."
Hold on." He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'd just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. "I just did some calculations, and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit -- John Green
Teenagers think they are invincible -- John Green
I might have hasked a question ... , except that 1. I didn't know what it was, and 2. I didn't care to learn, and 3. I never really excelled in small talk. -- John Green
("We will call Chase, Jeans Are Too Thight, and Fulton shall be Short One Chewing Tobacco," Hassan whispered to Colin.)
"Je m'appelle Pierre," Colin blurted out after the boys had introduced themselves. "Quand je vais dans le metro, je fais aussi de la musique de prouts. -- John Green
When she fucked up, all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she collapsed into the enigma of herself. And that could have happened to me, but I saw where it led for her. So I still believe in the Great Perhaps, and I can believe in it in spite of having lost her. -- John Green
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. -- John Green
Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us fight the nihilistic urges that constantly threaten to consume us. -- John Green
I point out that Tiny Cooper had about 11,542 girlfriends freshman year, and then Tiny punches me in the arm in a way that he thinks is playful but actually causes permanent nerve damage. -- John Green
We can hear others, and we can travel with them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system, like so many leaves of grass. But the game makes me wonder wheter we can really ever fully become another. -- John Green
I have two kinds of Facebook friends: Those who know what 'DFTBA' means, and those who don't. -- John Green
Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are. [But] I do pick you. We've been friends too long to pick, but if we could pick, I'd pick you. -- John Green
I'm not from Indianapolis, but I like living in Indianapolis. If I were to explain it, I'd tell someone to imagine a city that perfectly captures the best and the worst of America. Imagine the truly American city, because that's what it is. -- John Green
10-5 space 16-5-14-19-5 space 17-21-5 space 10-5 space 20-1-9-13-5. -- John Green
For who so firm that cannot be seduced? she'd written. -- John Green
I picked you. And then you picked me back. And that's like a promise.
At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer, 'Til dawn do us part. -- John Green
How can you just be so wrong about something? -- John Green
You have given me an infinity within the numbered days, and for that I am eternally grateful. -- John Green
I am in love with you, Hazel Grace. And I know that love is just shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable. And I am in love with you. -- John Green
I spy with my little eye a great story. -- John Green
Leaving senior year like:
its hard to leave to you leave, then its the eased goddam thing you've ever done. -- John Green
You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality! -- John Green
Hassan Harbish. Sunni Muslim. Not a terrorist.
Lindsey Lee Wells. Methodist. Me, neither. -- John Green
It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much. -- John Green
The problem with chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to the point where nothing is real. -- John Green
The night before, Paramedic (in Training) Lindsey Lee Wells had diagnosed him with moderate contusions and "sprained balls" after an exhaustive search of medical Web sites. She diagnosed TOC as suffering from 'I'm-an-asshole-and-Lindsey's-never-going-to-speak-to-me-again-itis'. -- John Green
But there is all these time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And it's only in that time that we can see one another, because we see out of ourselves through our cracks and into others through theirs. -- John Green
I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again. -- John Green
All I have to do is stay in between the lines and make sure that no one is too close to me and I am not too close to anyone and keep leaving. Maybe it felt like this for her, too, but I could never feel like this alone. -- John Green
The real heroes of the Wish Factory are the young men and women who wait like Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot and good Christian girls wait for marriage. -- John Green
You spend all your time worrying about losing your edge or getting dumped or whatever and you're never for a scond grateful. -- John Green
And she kissed me on the lips out of nowhere during recess one day while I was trying to read Huck Finn in the sandbox, and that was my first kiss, and later that day she dumped me because boys were gross. -- John Green
His, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone. "Okay," he said after forever. -- John Green
Perhaps our Okay will be our always -- John Green
Me: "If you want me to be a teenager, don't send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot."
Mom: "You don't take pot, for starters."
Me: "See, that's the kind of thing I'd know if you got me a fake ID. -- John Green
Your professional physicist opinion?" I ask.
She smiles. "I believe the cat to be alive. And what says my esteemed colleague?"
"Alive," I say. -- John Green
People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love. -- John Green
Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start. -- John Green
Physical space between us evaporates. We play the broken strings of our instruments one last time -- John Green
Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it. -- John Green
Part of not being a self-centered asshole, Colin reasoned, is doing things with your friends even when you don't want to. -- John Green
Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention. -- John Green
I know what happens a the end of falling-landing -- John Green
I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter. -- John Green
Cousin-screwing. It is not totally safe. It raises the risk of birth defects slightly. But I was reading in a book for history that there's, like, a 99.9999 percent chance that at least one of your great-great-great-grandparents married first cousin. -- John Green
I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer.
He smiled. Gallows humor. -- John Green
I suppose we could use some rain," and the Colonel looked up at the low clouds coming in fast and threatening, and then he said, "Well, use it or not, we're sure as shit going to get some." And we sure as shit did. -- John Green
Maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again. -- John Green
We are not speaking gibberish. We're speaking the sacred language of the Qur'an, the language of great Calipha and Saladin, the most beautiful intricate of all human tongues. "
" Well it sounds like a Racoon clearing it's throat. -- John Green
This is what I love about novels, both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss, to be with you -- John Green
We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now. -- John Green
I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails. -- John Green
That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created. -- John Green
Everybody should have true love, and it should last as long as your life does. -- John Green
She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall. -- John Green
I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies. -- John Green
Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one of them moved ... the domino effect could engulf the three of us in an asphyxiating mass of literature. -- John Green
We left. We did not say: Don't drive, You're drunk.
We did not say: We aren't letting you in that car when you are upset.
We did not say: We insist on going with you.
We did not say: This can wait until tomorrow. Anything-everything-can wait. -- John Green
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing. -- John Green
I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drawn. -- John Green
The girl who cried,
The friend who tried,
The boy who died. -- John Green
It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood. -- John Green
No, I love you. Not like a sister loves a brother or like a friend loves a friend. I love you like a really drunk guy loves the best girl ever -- John Green
Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said.
"Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. -- John Green
It was the immutable tango between the Dumper and the Dumpee: the coming and the seeing and the conquering and the returning home. -- John Green
I want to find someone who makes me feel like loving me is easy. -- John Green
I was thinking about this tonight, actually, that maybe I want strangers to think I'm cool since people who actually know me don't. -- John Green
It's like being best friends with a fairy-tale giant; Tiny Cooper can't help but hurt you. -- John Green
I'm going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because of He is God. -- John Green
I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God. -- John Green
It's easy to love someone from a distance -- John Green
But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more time for reading when I'm old and boring. -- John Green
Or because he got eighteen years when he should have gotten more.'
'Seventeen,' Gus corrected.
'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interrupting bastard. -- John Green
Be the Music that Moves you
Float like a Butterfly Sting like Bee
Follow your DREAMS! -- John Green
Best day of my life was January 9, 1997. I was eight years old and my mom and I went to the zoo on a class trip. I liked the bears. She liked the monkeys. Best day ever. End of story. -- John Green
Grayson. I know you think I'm full of shit, but I knew I loved him the moment we kissed.
Goddamaned it. What am I going to do? And then he stifles a sob with the last shot. -- John Green
Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park; an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children. -- John Green
As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know. -- John Green
Depression isn't a side effect of cancer. It's a side effect of dying. -- John Green
And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius. -- John Green
The right story needs the right telling. -- John Green
She kind of hates Orlando; she called it a paper town. Like, you know, everything so fake and flimsy. I think she just wanted a vacation from that. -- John Green
I looked down and thought about how I was made of paper. I was the flimsy-foldable person, not everyone else. -- John Green
She called it a paper town. Like, you know, everything so fake and flimsy. -- John Green
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death. -- John Green
I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. 'The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.' That's God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost. -- John Green
Home is Where the Heart Is, Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget. True Love is Born from Hard Times. -- John Green
I don't want to hear another negative word about cheerleaders. If it weren't for cheerleaders, who would tell us when and how to be happy during athletic events? If it weren't for cheerleaders, how would America's prettiest girls get the exercise that's so vital to a healthy life? -- John Green
The last time I was this scared, I peed myself."
"The last time I was this scared," Radar says, "I actually had to face a Dark Lord in order to make the world safe for wizards. -- John Green
As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly. -- John Green
He wanted her to call; he wanted her to miss him; but as it turned out, he was okay. He'd never found single life so interesting before. -- John Green
Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes tremendous time and money to the maintenance of an invasive plant species called turf grass that we can't eat. I encourage you to choose better obsessions. -- John Green
In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album. -- John Green
I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool. -- John Green
No shit. If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms, do me a favor and shoot me. -- John Green
But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. -- John Green
Anyway, I learned an important lesson from all of this: While gun ownership is
morally reprehensible in the civilized world, firepower is more or less
de rigeur in a zombie apocalypse. -- John Green
The boys I'm acquainted with are vastly uninteresting. -Kaitlyn -- John Green
May the pigs of fate fly you safely home. -- John Green
Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder -- John Green
While the mass of men went on leading thoroughly unexamined lives of monstrous consumption, Augustus Waters examined the collection of the Rijksmuseum from afar. -- John Green
The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive. -- John Green
I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once. -- John Green
College: getting in or not getting in.
Trouble: getting in or not getting in.
School: getting A's or getting D's. Career: having or not having. House: big or small, owning or renting. Money: having or not having. It's all boring. -- John Green
95% of romantic stories end with partners committing to each other because everything after that is just the blank terrifying morass of adulthood. This monotonous grind in which the only real excitement in your life is occasionally finding a truly ripe avocado at the grocery store. -- John Green
That night, the booze felt great, as the warmth of the wine in my stomach spread through my body. I didn't like feeling stupid or out of control, but I liked the way it made everything (laughing, crying, peeing in front of your friends) easier. -- John Green
Nothing," I said. "I'm just ... " I couldn't finish the sentence, didn't know how to. "I'm just very, very fond of you. -- John Green
I make a gesture that is intended to convey, "Hey, no hurry, talk as long as you'd like," and probably actually conveys, "Hey, look at me! I have spastic hands. -- John Green
The truth is that it hurts because it's real-it hurts because it mattered. -- John Green
A small olive-skinned creature who had hit puberty but never hit it very hard, Ben had been my best friend since fifth grade, when we both finally owned up to the fact that neither of us was likely to attract anyone else as a best friend. -- John Green
You wrongly assume that I need to hear your question in order to answer it. -- John Green
~ some infinities are bigger then other infinities~ okay. Okay~ the fault in our stars -- John Green
Headline?" he asked.
"'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said.
"'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said.
"'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said. -- John Green
Abraham Maslow, I present to you Augustus Waters, whose existential curiosity dwarfed that of his well-fed, well-loved, healthy brethren. -- John Green
Trane's playing is literally the most convincing proof of God's existence I've ever come across. -- John Green
Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old. -- John Green
I knew these people were genuinely sad, and that I wasn't really mad at them. I was mad a the universe. Even so, it infuriated me: You get all these friends just when you don't need friends anymore. -Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars -- John Green
By far the best cure for hangovers is not drinking excessively the night before.This cure has a 100% success rate, and as you save the cost of the drinks you would have otherwise drunk, it is cheaper than free. -- John Green
Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room -- John Green
I can't imagine us saying these things to each other out loud. But even if I can't imagine hearing these words, I can imagine living them. I don't even picture it. Instead I'm in it. How I feel with him here. That peace. It would be so happy, and it makes me sad because it only exists in words. -- John Green
I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have. -- John Green
The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all. -- John Green
Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it to do great things in us & through us, because suffering is fertile ... it an grow new life. -- John Green
( ... ) and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death was Augustus Water. -- John Green
You're amazing, and I so want to be your boyfriend, because of what you just said, and also because that shirt makes me want to take you home and do unspeakable things while we watch live-action Sailor Moon videos -- John Green
Maura is the kind of friend I enjoy slapping doomsday scenarios with. She's not, however, someone makes me want to prevent stay happening. -- John Green
God, I am always foiled by my love of hash browns! -- John Green
Poor Pudge. Oh, poor poor Pudge. Do you want me to climb into bed with you and cuddle?"
"Well since you're offering
"
"NO! UP! NOW! -- John Green
Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died. -- John Green
Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her, and understand the role I'd played in her dying. But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightining. -- John Green
I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that. -- John Green
We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.
I do, Augustus.
I do. -- John Green
The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to speed limit, time to pass this sixteen-wheeler, turn signal, check rearview, crane neck to check blind spot and yes, okay, left lane. -- John Green
I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbour, with all my crooked heart -- John Green
Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large. -- John Green
Not Really, he said then lit a cigarette and handed it to me. I inhaled. Coughed. Wheezed. Gasped for breath. Coughed again. Considered vomiting. Grabbed the swinging bench, head spinning, and threw the cigarette to the ground and stomped on it, convinced my Great Perhaps did not involve cigarettes. -- John Green
I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know, I am also a girl. I'm one of the three wise MEN. And it's gay to think that James Bond is hot. -- John Green
He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. "You're so hot," I said, my hand still on his leg.
"I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish," he answered, still kissing me. I laughed.
"I have an Augustus Waters fetish," I explained. -- John Green
Augustus Waters talked so much that he's interrupt you at his own funeral. -- John Green
When I wake up, the dying light of the day makes everything seem to matter, from the yellowing sky to the stalks of grass above my head, waving in slow motion like a beauty queen. -- John Green
I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. -- John Green
On time for us was thirty minutes before actually started, because the half hour before the first bell was the highlight of our social calendars: standing outside the side door that led into the band room and just talking. -- John Green
But there she is, and I am watching her through the Plexiglas, and she looks like Margo Roth Spiegelman, this girl I have known since I was two
this girl who was an idea that I loved. -- John Green
Perfection stands still while mortals walk past. - Quentin "Q" Jacobsen -- John Green
Please stop," I said. "You're upsetting the black Santas. -- John Green
I laugh, but I'm still thinking about ten-year-old Margo having a crush on ten-year-old me. -- John Green
Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. -- John Green
I always got very nervous whenever I heard that Margo was about to show up, on account of how she was the most fantastically gorgeous creature that God has ever created. -- John Green
I had not cried for Margo until then, but now finally I did, pounding against the ground and shouting because there was no on to hear: I missed her I missed her I missed her I miss her. -- John Green
As we walked, I kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While Mortals Walk Past. -- John Green
Almost everyone is obsessed about leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.
I want to leave a mark. -- John Green
Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another
unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease. -- John Green
Sometimes I dream that I'm writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and memories of my adoring public. -- John Green
But even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. -- John Green
Dear Augustus:
I will take care of Hazel if your you take care to Tris.
- Love always Tobias. -- John Green
Abundant free time to thinking about death. Whenever you -- John Green
Also your mom. Bro, I saw your mom kiss you on the cheek this morning, and forgive me, but I swear to God I was like, man, I wish I was Q. And also, I wish my cheeks had penises. -- John Green
You know what I hate? The outdoors. I mean, generally. I don't like outside. I'm an inside person. I'm all about refrigeration and indoor plumbing and Judge Judy. -- John Green
The locker room isn't porn for me / 'cause you're all too damned pimple-ey. -- John Green
Yeah," I said. "What is that? A bird? "It's the swan," he said. "Wow. A school with a swan. Wow."
"That swan is the spawn of Satan. Never get closer to it than we are now. -- John Green
That night,I lay on my side,staring out the window into the invisible world outside.I kept trying to fall asleep,but then my eyes would dart open,just to check.I couldn't help but hope that Margo Roth Spiegelman would return to my window and drag my tired ass through one more night I'd never forget. -- John Green
It's hard to explain, but talking to them felt like stabbing and being stabbed. -- John Green
Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked.
How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee? -- John Green
The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness:
'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it. -- John Green
The Degree to which I am blessed staggers me ... the degree to which I take that for granted shames me.
-Streetwalking with Jesus -- John Green
Shakespeare told us precious little of the man whom he entombed in his linguistic sarcophagus. -- John Green
All roads led to her. She was the nexus of all connections his brain made - the wheel's hub -- John Green
Maybe okay will be our always." "Okay, -- John Green
Nostalgia is a side effect of dying. -- John Green
I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit. -- John Green
The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture. -- John Green
I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be ... but God clearly says, those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility. -- John Green
It amazes me that you can find all that shit even remotely interesting. -- John Green
So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe. -- John Green
In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute - how dismissive it is, how it's the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, Feel Bad About Yourself. -- John Green
The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the universe - these concepts have become important to me, and I hope they're at work in my life on a minute-by-minute basis. -- John Green
Never have I so wanted to be Crest Complete. -- John Green
Neutral Milk Hotel is supposedly playing a reunion show at the Hideout and it's totally not advertised and no one even knows about it and holy shit, Grayson, holy shit!"
"Holy shit!" I shout. One thing you can say for Tiny: whenever something awesome happens, Tiny is always the first to hear. -- John Green
We're going to have a big frickin' problem when he starts feeling those shots", and I decide that Jane is right, and anyway, Ashland Avenue is terrible, so we need to leave the Hideout posthate. -- John Green
Oh, bullshit. You didn't come here to make sure I was okay. You came here because you wanted to save poor little Margo from her troubled little self, so that I would be oh-so-thankful to my knight in shining armour -- John Green
Never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves." Easy enough to say when you're a Roman nobleman (or Shakespeare!), but there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars. While -- John Green
That's the problem about pain. It demands to be felt. -- John Green
These little contradictions are in all of us. They're in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake for 30 hours and kept walking, grateful to be a little boat full of water, still floating. -- John Green
Teenagers are extremely funny, and extremely clever and intellectually curious. But they're also willing to ask questions about the meaning of life without disguising them around irony, and ask questions about what are our responsibilities to other people without having to couch it in irony. -- John Green
Nerdfighter pwns woot. Everyone knows that. -- John Green
I am never going to get better at being a good person. I am always going to be the blood and shit of things. -- John Green
And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long. -- John Green
There's hurt. There's pain. There's hurt-and-pain-at-once. -- John Green
Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager."
"Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow. -- John Green
Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, taste like love without the fear of love's dissolution, and as we came to the 90-degree curve Sunrise Avenue takes before heading straight downtown, I could almost taste them. -- John Green
A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution ... -- John Green
Colin "I'm just
I'm just a failure. what if this is it?
andI never do anything significant and I'm just a complete waste?"
Hassan sat up, with his hands on his knees. "See, this is why you need to believe in God. -- John Green
Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus squeezed my hand. It is a good life, Hazel Grace. -- John Green
And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone. -- John Green
if you'd like, i can show you the trophy case on the way out so you can bask in the achievements of the alumni who are now old enough to be suffering from erectile dysfunction, memory loss, and death. -- John Green
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. -- John Green
It scares me sometimes. Wishing it to work -- John Green
There is no honor in dying of -- John Green
I like this interstate as much as the next guy, but the farther south we go, the hotter it gets, and I'm already sweating like a whore in church. -- John Green
What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV. -- John Green
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? -- John Green
The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children. -- John Green
Well, yeah," he said. "But before that, my grand romantic gesture would have totally gotten me laid."
I laughed pretty hard, hard enough that I felt where the chest tube had been.
"You laugh because it's true," he said.
I laughed again.
"It's true, isn't it! -- John Green
If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they're total muggles. -- John Green
Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young. -- John Green
Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers. -- John Green
So maybe we won't ever win the lottery, or marry royalty, or make that last second shot. That doesn't mean we won't have amazing adventures, meet exceptional people, and make indelible memories. The trick is to notice before it's too late. -- John Green
I began to swim, an armless silver mermaid, using only my hips to generate motion, until finally my ass scraped against the lake's mucky bottom. I turned then and used my hips and waist to roll three times, until I came ashore near a ratty green towel. They'd left me a towel. How thoughtful. -- John Green
Esther was uncommon not because she was sick but because she was Esther, and she did not exist so that the rest of us could learn Important Lessons about Life.The meaning of her life-likethe meaning of any life- is a maddeningly ambiguous question shrouded in uncertainty -- John Green
Tiny, the next time that you try to set me up with a girl with a secret boyfriend can you at least INFORM me that she has a secret boyfriend? Also, if you don't call me back within five minutes, I'm going to assume you found a way back to Evanston. Furthermore, you are an asshat. That is all. -- John Green
I really care about her. I mean, we were hopeless. Badly matched. But still. I mean, I said I loved her. -- John Green
Augustus was amazing, but he'd overdone everything at the picnic, right down to the sandwiches that were metaphorically resonant but tasted terrible and the memorized soliloquy that prevented conversation. It all felt Romantic, but not romantic. -- John Green
If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world. -- John Green
Everything looks uglier close up. -- John Green
I felt the fight-or-flight reflex swell up in me over and over again, but I knew that neither fight nor flight had ever worked for me before. -- John Green
The slight chill in the air was balanced magnificently by the sunshine. -- John Green
You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real. -- John Green
I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what. -- John Green
Most loves don't last. But some do. -- John Green
I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story. -- John Green
In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you. -- John Green
I don't want to live in a world without Augusts Waters -- John Green
She never acted as if she liked him all that much, but then she never acted as if she liked anyone all that much. -- John Green
I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds. -- John Green
Hating the cool kids takes an awful lot of energy, and I'd given up on it a long time ago. -- John Green
Shit, if I can teach you precalc, I can teach anybody. like maybe kids with autism. -- John Green
And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying. -- John Green
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness. -- John Green
The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company. -- John Green
They just don't make sex look fun for women. The girl is just an object. -- John Green
Breaking down that wall is the kind of story that might have a happy middle - oh, look, we broke down this wall, I'm going to look at you like a girl and you're going to look at me like a boy, and we're going to play a fun game called Can I Put My Hand There What About There What About There. -- John Green
Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while. -- John Green
Buy!" "SELL!" "Trade!" "BARTER!" "YOU'RE MUCH BIGGER, BUT WE ARE SMARTER! -- John Green
Margowegottagohomeandtell. -- John Green
I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr. -- John Green
But there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers -- John Green
Do you know what it's like to work so hard to make sure everyone's happy, and to have not a single person recognize it? - Tiny Copper (Will Grayson, Will Grayson) -- John Green
Idealistic and self-sufficient and rugged people they had once been, and -- John Green
The last time I stand in a circle outside the band room in the shade of this oak tree that has protected generations of band geeks. -- John Green
Bro, it's dark. You can't go to a strange building with a mysterious address in the dark. Haven't you ever seen a horror movie? -- John Green
I know love is real because I feel it. -- John Green
Zach is like the more I think about it the more I think y ruin a gr8 friendship? I still think tiny's awesome tho. -- John Green
Oh shit did you just dis the feminine gender
I'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blender
You think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhyme
But I got flow like Ghostbusters got slime
Objectify women and it's fuckin' on
You'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon. -- John Green
Denim miniskirt. Tight white T-shirt. Scooped neck. Extraordinarily olive skin. Legs that make you care about legs. Perfectly coiffed curly brown hair. A laminated button reading ME FOR PROM QUEEN. Lacey Pemberton. Walking toward us. -- John Green
It's all good, Hazel Grace. But just be clear, when I thought I saw Caroline Mathers' ghost in support group, I was not entirely happy. I was staring, but I wasn't yearning, if you know what I mean. -- John Green
And then we were kissing ... The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I rally like my body; this cancer-ruined thing I'd spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth the struggle,.. -- John Green
Because the driving kept him going stay under seventy; God, my heart racing; I hate the taste of coffee; so wired though; okay, and clear of the truck; okay yes; right lane; and now just my own headlights against the darkness. -- John Green
I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance ... -- John Green
I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone. -- John Green
Take some risks. Stop playing it so safe. -- John Green
The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her -- John Green
It seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box, that the unobserved is both there and not. -- John Green
That's why I love road trips, dude. It's like doing something without actually doing anything. -- John Green
But it doesn't say that dude shall not fall in love with dude, because that's just impossible, right? The gays are animals, answering their animal desires. It's impossible for animals to fall in love. And yet- -- John Green
What the hell is that?" I laughed.
"It's my fox hat."
"Your fox hat?"
"Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat."
"Why are you wearing your fox hat?" I asked.
"Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox. -- John Green
I thought: We are not close enough.
I though: He will not hear it.
I thought: He will hear it and be out so fast that we will have no chance.
I thought: Twenty seconds. I was breathing hard and fast. -- John Green
The future will erase everything
there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible. -- John Green
There's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion -- John Green
I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark. -- John Green
-so if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's what the rest of the world does. -- John Green
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters."
Computer: "I don't understand-"
Issac: "Me neither. Pause -- John Green
Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else ... But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists. -- John Green
They're an impenetrable fortress of unknowability, really. -- John Green
Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town. -- John Green
I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry -- John Green
True love is born from hard times. -- John Green
On the morning in question, she wore white shorts and a pink T-shirt that featured a green dragon breathing a fire of orange glitter. It is difficult to explain how awesome I found this T-shirt at the time. -- John Green
Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music. We -- John Green
So but anyway, being funny is a way of not doing. Sit around and make jokes and be Mr. Funnypants and just make fun of everyone else's attempts to do something... So that's it. I'm going to start doing. -- John Green
And even though I was in bed and he was in his basement, it really felt like we were back in that uncreated third space, which was a place I really liked visiting with him. -- John Green
Peter Van Houten was the only person I'd ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it's
like to be dying, and (b) not have died. -- John Green
I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance. -- John Green
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
If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane. -- John Green
What you must understand about me is that I'm a deeply unhappy person. -- John Green
I wouldn't have cared if my girlfriend was a Jaguar-driving Cyclops with a beard - I'd have been grateful just to have someone to make out with. -- John Green
Okay is BURSTING with sensuality -- John Green
I'm not sure if I'm depressed. I mean, I'm not exactly sad. But I'm not exactly happy either. I can laugh and joke and smile during the day, But sometimes when I'm alone at night I forget how to feel. -- John Green
Every paper girl needs at least one string. -- John Green
It was a lame string, for sure, but it was the one I had left and every paper girl needs at least one string, right? (58) -- John Green
But it was the last string. It was a lame string, for sure, but it was the one I had left, and every paper girl needs at least one string, right? -- John Green
[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use. -- John Green
When you stop wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you stop suffering when they do. -- John Green
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
It's all very dramatic and everything, but so what? I didn't know the guy. People I don't know die all the damned time. -- John Green
Because Margo knows the secret of leaving, the secret I have only just now learned: leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out y the roots. But you can't do that until your life grown roots. -- John Green
You can love someone so much ... But you can never love people as much as you can miss them. -- John Green
Lacey shrugged bashfully. "Do you think I'm superficial?"
"Well, yeah." I thought of myself standing outside Becca's bedroom, hoping she'd take her shirt off. "But so am I," I added. "So is everyone. -- John Green
We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear? -- John Green
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal. -- John Green
You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home?"
"No, sir," Gus said.
"We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water. -- John Green
I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn't sound dumb, and I hated how it was all just a game of trying to figure out what the teacher wanted to hear and then saying it. -- John Green
Lacey put a hand to her face, ashamed. "You're a challenging boyfriend," she said. "Rewarding, but challenging." We laughed. -- John Green
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
I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing. I flipped to the back and found the highlighted quote (NEVER USE A HIGHLIGHTER IN MY BOOKS, -- John Green
But now I. Never. Do. Anything. For anybody. Except retards I don't even give a shit about. -- John Green
Entropy increases. Things fall apart. -- John Green
You can fight with me," I said. I put my controller down and leaned back on our foam couch and was asleep. As I drifted off, I heard the Colonel say, "I can't be mad at you, you harmless skinny bastard. -- John Green
She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me. -- John Green
The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not. -- John Green
Grand," he said. "I have been wanting to call you on a nearly minutely basis, but I have been waiting to call you until I could form a coherent thought in re An Imperial Affliction." (He really said "in re". That boy.) -- John Green
The difficulty is partly that I am hesitant to go seventy-two and partly that the minivan itself is hesitant to go seventy-two -- John Green
I pointed at the little kids goading each other to jump from rib cage to shoulder and Gus answered just loud enough for me to hear over the din, 'Last time, I imagined myself as the kid. This time, the skeleton. -- John Green
But it was only hot outside, and generally I only walked outside between one air-conditioned place to another. -- John Green
Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting. -- John Green
I'll just go over to the Duke's," I said. "Her parents already told me I could stay there. I'll go over there and open all my presents, and talk about how my parents neglect me, and then maybe the Duke will give me some of her presents because she feels so bad about how my mom doesn't love me. -- John Green
Christ," the Colonel said quite loudly. "That wretched beast, drama, draws nigh. -- John Green
Whats up, Q?" asked Gus.
Oh, we're just scattering some dead fish about town, breaking some windows, photographing naked guys, hanging out in skyscraper lobbies at three-fifteen in the morning, that type of thing.
"Not much," I answered. -- John Green
Oh, we"re just scattering some dead fish about town, breaking some windows, photographing naked guys, hanging out in sky-scraper lobbies at three-fifteen in the morning, that kind of thing. "Not much", I answered. -- John Green
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. -- John Green
Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page," Radar said. "For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris specializes in the roundhouse kick, I don't think it's accurate to say, 'Chuck Norris's tears can cure cancer, but unfortunately he has never cried. -- John Green
Mom hooked me up to a portable tank and then reminded me I had class. "Did that boy give it to you?" she asked out of nowhere.
"By it, do you mean herpes?"
"You are too much," Mom said. "The book, Hazel. I mean the book."
"Yeah, he gave me the book. -- John Green
His hair was parted neatly on the left side in a way that he would have found absolutely horrifying. -- John Green
You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are. -- John Green
Of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him-inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he reached for me: I'd felt as though I were committing an act of violence against him, because I was. -- John Green
God, we are so cool. And by cool, I mean retarded. -- John Green
We think of infinity as a really big number, but it's not. It's endlessness. Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings. -- John Green
The stories, when they were shared, inevitably ended with, I mean, can you believe it? We often could not, but they always proved true. -- John Green
Honestly, everything else aside, I like finding stuff out about her. I mean, that I didn't know before. I had no idea who she really was. I honestly never thought of her as anything but my crazy beautiful friend who does all the crazy beautiful things. -- John Green
Because memories fall apart, too. And you're left with nothing. -- John Green
And I put the latte down on a table, awash in the happy middle of my greatest adventure. -- John Green
And we'll call you ... hmmm. Pudge."
"Huh?"
"Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right. -- John Green
You still secretly believe that there is an element of magic to this world? It's all just soulless molecules bouncing against each other randomly. -- John Green
Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used. -- John Green
It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering? -- John Green
And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could. -- John Green
If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd just let myself be trampled to death by the Satan Pig. -- John Green
Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year-olds working ninety hours a week to deliver you that kind of top-quality witticism? There are boy bands with more original material. -- John Green
Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans."
"But you are an American."
"Incurably so, it seems. -- John Green
Crying is almost totally avoidable if you follow two simple rules:
1. Don't care too much.
2. Shut up. -- John Green
Maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. -- John Green
She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die -- John Green
Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust. -- John Green
Listen, douchepants," I said, "you're not going to tell me anything about disease I don't already know. I need one and only one thing from you before I walk out of your life forever: WHAT HAPPENS TO ANNA'S MOTHER? -- John Green
If you want me to be a teenager, don't send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot. -- John Green
I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill. - Takumi -- John Green
One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to very specific kinds of heroism. Most of us don't get to be Snooki. For most of us heroism has to be in our everyday lives. -- John Green
The school felt more mine than in all my four years there. -- John Green
The world is turned upside down, I love it. It's like we're in a snow globe and God decided he wanted to see a blizzard so he shook us all the fug up. -- John Green
There's not even real *popularity* at my school."
"That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people. -- John Green
So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her.
I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them. -- John Green
Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?"
"It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts. -- John Green
Which got me to wondering whether it's possible to learn how to be a person in a world where all the people are dead. -- John Green
Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drunk and tired. -- John Green
graffiti in the stall read: CALL DANA FOR BLOW. Colin wondered whether Dana provided fellatio or cocaine, -- John Green
JP shouted, "TELL THEM WHAT YOU JUST DID TO EACH OTHER!"
"Um," I said.
"We kissed," the Duke said.
"That's kinda gay," Keun said.
"I AM A GIRL."
"Yeah, I know, but so is Tobin," Keun said. -- John Green
Listen douche pants. You're not going to tell me anything about disease I don't already know. -- John Green
You choose your behaviors based on their metaphorical resonances ... - Hazel Grace Lancaster -- John Green
Because personally I think mattering is a piss-poor idea. I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that's when you get shot down. The bigger a deal you are, the worse your life is. -- John Green
Oh, my God! Get out of the car or I'll call nine-one-one. Dude, what is your problem? -- John Green
You should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as happy ending. There is so much to lose. -- John Green
You keep expecting people not to be themselves. -- John Green
I reckon you could go ahead and shoot that dog and git you another one with regular anal sacs and wouldn't nobody be the wiser.' And I tell him, 'Starnes, this town ain't got any men worth loving, so I might as well love my dog."' The -- John Green
He turns to me and he whispers really loudly because secretly he wants other people to hear, 'I'm in love.' I roll my eyes, because he falls in love every hour on the hour with some poor new boy. -- John Green
Daddy's gonna put you on a sailboat across the River Styx." "Did you just use Greek mythology to talk trash? -- John Green
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. -- John Green
Maybe Harry Potter is real and you're not. -- John Green
Chuck Parson walking toward us with some intent. Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from the larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of homicide. -- John Green
I guess these days this is a politically charged statement, but it seems to me manifestly true: You make nothing alone. Human beings are not mere competitors, and human life is not merely competition. We are collaborators. To be human is to catch the falling person. -- John Green
You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you. -- John Green
Easy comfort isn't comforting," I said. -- John Green
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. -- John Green
Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn't match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things. -- John Green
I don't know who she is anymore, or who she was, but I need to find her. -- John Green
The problem is that I am secretly in love with Hassan. I can't help myself. I hold your bony shoulder blades in my hands and think of his fleshy back (Lindsey). -- John Green
You think they liked me?'
'Sure they did. Who cares, though? They're just parents.'
'They're your parents,' he said, glancing over at me. 'Plus, I like being liked. Is that crazy? -- John Green
I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable. -- John Green
I remember thinking that. You were dork chic before dork chic was chic. -- John Green
My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn't want to but I did. -- John Green
Things never happen like I imagined them -- John Green
Study broadly and without fear. -- John Green
It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures. -- John Green
You can't dingleberry that! That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry! -- John Green
I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did. -- John Green
I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey? -- John Green
I didn't really look down and think about how everything was made of paper. I looked down and thought about how I was made of paper. -- John Green
Everyone wants to leave an extraordinary life. -- John Green
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
Rule #1; Don't care to much. Rule #2; Shut up! -- John Green
the things that you hope for the most are the things that will destroy you in the end. -- John Green
To stay callm, I wondered to myself, Does he have regular handcuffs, or does he have special SeaWorld handcuffs? Like, are they shaped like two curved dolphins coming together? -- John Green
Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others. -- John Green
I'm just reveling in the glory of not having to hear the neediness and impotence of my own voice. -- John Green
He did not drink or do drugs or smoke cigarettes or wear black eyeliner or stay out late or get bad grades or pierce his tongue or have the words "KATHERINE LUVA 4 LIFE" tattoed across his back. -- John Green
OMNICTIONARIAN96: Nah, man. I've been up since six, expanding the article on this Malaysian pop singer. -- John Green
You're too busy being you that you don't realize how utterly unprecedented you are. -- John Green
It's a penis," Margo said, "in the same sense that Rhode Island is a state: it may have an illustrious history, but it sure isn't big. -- John Green
I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they do that separately from adults. -- John Green
3 whole Catfish, Wrapped separately
Veet (It's for Shaving your legs Only you don't Need A razor. It's with all the Girly
cosmetic stuff)
Vaseline
six pack, Mountain Dew
One dozen Tulips
one Bottle Of water
Tissues
One Can of blue Spray paint -- John Green
I think about how much depends upon a best friend. Then you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not. -- John Green
No headboards were broken. -- John Green
It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy. -- John Green
There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going. -- John Green
I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living. -- John Green
And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking. -- John Green
Oblivion is inevitable!! -- John Green
When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's how humans are ultimately defined. We are our relationships to one another. And a lot of what's interesting about us happens in the context of other people. -- John Green
The fault in our stars is the best book and the movie too -- John Green
Okay, so anagrams. That's one. Got any other charming talents?" she asked, and now he felt confident.
Finally, Colin turned to her, gathering in his gut the slim measure of courage available to him, and said, "Well, I'm a fair kisser. -- John Green
Who's there?" replied Alaska.
"Who."
"Who Who?"
"What are you, an owl?" I finished. Lame. -- John Green
That poem is so damned long. You'd think old Walt could have taken a line or two to tell us how to unscrew the door from its jamb. -- John Green
... It is so hard to accept that life is falling and landing and falling and landing. I agree it's not ideal. I agree -- John Green
I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,' Augustus interrupted. 'Please to be eating your sandwich and listening. -- John Green
I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism. -- John Green
He was just a star in my sky ... constant, familiar, bright, far above me -- John Green
His memory is compromised,' Lidewij said. 'If only my memory would compromise,' Van Houten responded. -- John Green
He's become the one the songs are about, and while part of me knows he's probably worth that, another part is yelling at me to slow the fuck down. -- John Green
We kiss. Her hands are freezing on my face, and she tastes like coffee and the smell of the onion is still stuck in my nose, and my lips are all dry from the endless winter. And it's awesome. -- John Green
Why is it upset? Shouldn't it be downset? -- John Green
Flirting was new to me, but I liked it. - Hazel Grace -- John Green
You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life. -- John Green
COCK-A-DOODLE DOO! HOW DO YOU LIKE IT FROMO THE OTHER END, YOU LITTLE FUGGER?"
"Kafir, I can say it with confidence: Today is a day that no pigs will die. I'm not even allowed to eat the motherfuggers; I'm sure not going to kill one."
"Amen," Colin answered. -- John Green
I just wanted to go back to that secret post-terrestrial third spacce with him that we visited when we talked on the phone. -- John Green
It always hurt not to breathe like a normal person, incessantly reminding your lungs to be lungs, forcing yourself to accept as unsolvable the clawing scraping inside-out ache of underoxygenation. -- John Green
And after, when we went outside to look at her finished lantern from the road, I said I liked the way her light shone through the face that flickered in the dark. - "Jack O'Lantern," Katrina Vandenberg from Atlas -- John Green
Kevin doesn't just wake up with that spiky bedhead look, Pudge. He works for it. He loves that hair. They leave their hair products here, Pudge, because they have duplicates at home. All these boys do. And do you know why?'
'Because they're compensating for their tiny penises?' i asked. -- John Green
It's fine, I repeated. And whatever. It was fine. It had to be. -- John Green
By the power of the superglue beer sword, I designate you my driver! -- John Green
The problem exactly is that she dumped me. That I'm alone. Oh my God, I'm alone again. And not only that, but I'm a total failure in case you haven't noticed. I'm washed up. I'm former. Formerly the boyfriend of Katherine XIX. Formerly a prodigy. Formerly full of potential. Currently full of shit. -- John Green
I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling, -- John Green
I cut a glance to him, and his eyes were still on me.
It occurred to me why they call it eye contact. -- John Green
Ninety-nine percent of the time, your parents never have to know, though. The school doesn't want your parents to think you became a fuckup here any more than you want your parents think you're a fuckup. -- John Green
You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. -- John Green
I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity. -- John Green
I wanted to be the last one she loved. And I knew I wasn't. -- John Green
Sick children inevitably become arrested: You are fated to live out your days as the child you were when diagnosed, the child who believes there is a life after a novel ends. -- John Green
You shall love your crooked neighbor / With your crooked heart.. -- John Green
your life broke down. The last good kiss / You -- John Green
It was like I was being punished for being gay, and back then I didn't even know what it meant to be gay. I never dreamed of dating another guy, or about having sex with one. I was seven. I didn't even know about sex yet. -- John Green
You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that too much. -- John Green
To what do I owe the pleasure?' I asked. Margo and I were still friendly, I guess, but we weren't meet-in-the-dead-of-night-wearing-black-face-paint friendly. She had friends for that, I'm sure. I just wasn't among them. -- John Green
People are different when you can smell them and look up close, you know? -- John Green
You know how sometimes you see a really sexy baby? Wait that sounds fucked up. -- John Green
Flirting was new to me, but I liked it. -- John Green
I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost. -- John Green
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. ( ... ) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. -- John Green
The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters. -- John Green
Pudge, my friend, we are indefuckingstructible. -- John Green
I grabbed it and held it to my face and there,God,yes.Her smell.The lilac shampoo and the almond in her skin lotion and benneath all of that the faint sweetness of the skin itself. -- John Green
When Alaska Young is sitting with her legs crossed in a brittle, periodically green clover patch leaning forward in search of four-leaf clovers, the pale skin of her sizable cleavage clearly visible, it is a plain fact of human physiology that it becomes impossible to join in her clover search. -- John Green
Nothing happens for a week. I don't mean this figuratively like there is a shortage of significant events. I mean that no things occur. Total stasis. It's sort of heavenly, to tell you the truth -- John Green
DID YOU KNOW WHETHER OR NOT [SPOILER REDACTED BECAUSE I KNOW PEOPLE WILL READ THIS DISCUSSION GUIDE BEFORE THEY'VE READ THE BOOK, EVEN THOUGH I JUST FORBADE YOU TO DO SO LIKE SIX PARAGRAPHS AGO] WAS INTENTIONAL WHILE YOU WERE WRITING IT? -- John Green
My regret was immediate and permanent and useless. -- John Green
I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks. -- John Green
Hazel, do you enjoy it?' I paused a second, trying to figure out if my response should be calibrated to please Augustus or his parents. 'Most of the people are really nice,' I finally said. -- John Green
The pigs can't stop the fox; I'm too quick,' Takumi said to himself. I can rhyme while I run; I'm that slick. -- John Green
The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before. -- John Green
We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim - as you will be - of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible. -- John Green
Dude, you're such a geek. And that's coming from an overweight Star Trek fan who scored a 5 on the AP Calculus test. So you know your condition is grave -- John Green
I'm sorry, but it appears something more fabulous than your phone call is happening right now. When fabulous levels fall a bit, I'll get back to you. BEEP. -- John Green
I am awful. I am heartless. I am scared that these things are actually true. -- John Green
The best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much - Lindsey to Colin, ch.14 -- John Green
Your friendship with her-it sleeps with the fishes. -- John Green
And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she would laugh. -- John Green
I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to. three -- John Green
Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business. -- John Green
People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to. -- John Green
I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read. -- John Green
Physical intimacy isn't and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy. -- John Green
I even tried to tell myself to live my best life today. -- John Green
There are a number of ways to establish someone's approximate survival expectations without actually asking. -- John Green
I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison. -- John Green
And i was left to ask "Did i help towards a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did i just assist in your wilful self destruction". -- John Green
That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people. -- John Green
That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of. -- John Green
One day, you're 17 and you're planing for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. and then someday is yesterday. And this is your life. -- John Green
The Colonel led all the cheers. Cornbread!" he screamed. CHICKEN!" the crowd responded. Rice!" PEAS!" And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER SATs." Hip Hip Hip Hooray!" the Colonel cried. YOU'LL BE WORKIN' FOR US SOMEDAY! -- John Green
Cornbread!" he screamed. "CHICKEN!" the crowd responded. "Rice!" "PEAS!" And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER S-A-Ts. -- John Green
I told Hassan I wanted to matter
like, be remembered. And he said, "famous is the new popular." Maybe he's right, and maybe I just want to be famous. -- John Green
That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering.
[p214] -- John Green
The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve. -- John Green
And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and nothing but herself and her mom in those last moments as she spent as a person. -- John Green
I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel. -- John Green
I still think that, sometimes, think
that maybe "the afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. -- John Green
So afterward, while I was getting eviscerated by chemo, for some reason I decided to feel really hopeful. Not about survival but I felt like Anna does in the book, that feeling of excitement and gratitude about just being able to marvel at it all. -- John Green
A gentle reminder: Isaac is in the midst of a psychotic episode. -- John Green
Pageboy haircut, and I hadn't even bothered to, like, brush it. Furthermore, -- John Green
God will punish the wicked. But before He does, we will. -- John Green
Just saying: stop thinking Ben should be you, and he needs to stop thinking you should be him, and y'all just chill the hell out. -- John Green
My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much. -- John Green
And I vaguely remember Lara smiling at me from the doorway, the glittering ambiguity of a girl's smile, which seems to promise an answer to the question but never gives it. -- John Green
Yeah, Pudge is adorable / but you want incorrigible / so Jake is more endurable / 'cause he's so - damn. Damn. I almost had four rhymes on adorable. But all I could think of was unfloorable, which isn't even a word. - Takumi -- John Green
You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it. -- John Green
What happens if we become adults waiting for a band that's never coming back? -- John Green
The world isn't just because only then we would have the power to change it. -- John Green
I'm about to lose my eyesight and she can't handle it. -- John Green
The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,' he said.
'And even after that, when the robots recall the human absurdities of sacrifice and compassion, they will remember us. -- John Green
Finally I did call him. His phone rang five times and then went to voice mail. "You've reached the voice mail of Augustus Waters," he said, the clarion voice I'd fallen for. "Leave a message." It beeped. The dead air on the line was so eerie. -- John Green
Sometimes you loose a battle. But mischief always wins a war. -- John Green
Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper -- John Green
Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one. -- John Green
All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing. -- John Green
I mean, you have to really like someone to go all the way to the Bean with them and listen to them talk about their boyfriend who was neither boy nor friend and also I sang for him. -- John Green
All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too. -- John Green
Who's my date" the Colonel asked.
*You're girlfriend is your date"
"All right" he said, and then deadpanned "but we don't get along very well -- John Green
The rain made hermits of us all. -- John Green
Complete fugging idiots shoot guns all the time. That's why there are so many dead people. -- John Green
The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable. -- John Green
You know what ambrosia tastes like? It tastes like all the things you can't eat on Weight Watchers. Cheeseburgers, sugar cookies, regular frickin' ice cream, instead of, like, ice cream that's made out of air ... and human hope. -- John Green
And most of all his eyes-his eyes have this crazy hope and crazy longing and ridiculous giddiness in them -- John Green
Do you guys remember that time when we were all definitely going to die and then Ben grabbed the steering wheel and dodged a ginormous freaking cow and spun the car like the teacups at Disney World and we didn't die? -- John Green
I believe in hope, in what is sometimes called "radical hope." I believe there is hope for us all, even amid the suffering - and maybe even inside suffering. -- John Green
I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation. -- John Green
I was thinking about the word handle and all the unholdable things that got handled. -- John Green
Well, I think you're cool, and I want you to think I'm cool, and that's all popular is. -- John Green
I don't see a future where we're all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and having conversations with knowledgeable people is immeasurably valuable and irreplaceable. -- John Green
When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff.' Which is not a good insult at all, like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience. -- John Green
How hard can it fucking be to successfully use a fake ID in this town? This is ridiculous! I won't stand for it. "No," I say, forcefully. "ID me."
"All right, man. If that's what gets your maracas shakin'. -- John Green
I left the only way you can leave. You pull your life off all at once - like a Band-Aid. -- John Green
We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none. -- John Green
You all smoke to enjoy it, I smoke to die. -- John Green
All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. -- John Green
All hurt is brain hurt. The -- John Green
We are all going. -- John Green
Like all sick children," he answered dispassionately, "you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it. -- John Green
Hating all the cool kids takes an awful lots of energy and I'd given up on it a long long time ago. -- John Green
I thought: This is not good.
I though: I am not bad at kissing. Not at bad at all.
I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe. -- John Green
As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time -- John Green
Boys do not have the monopoly in Staring Business, after all. -- John Green
Dating, after all, only ends one way: poorly. If you think about it ... all romantic relationships end in either (1) breakup, (2) divorce, or (3) death. -- John Green
I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken. -- John Green
I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the job of reading is to divine authorial intent. -- John Green
Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know? -- John Green
All writing is rewriting. -- John Green
They looked for all the world like miniaturized rose petals drained of their color. These pale petals were gathering in the wind like flocking birds - thousands of them, like a spring snowstorm. -- John Green
Why do you smoke so damn fast?"
"Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die. -- John Green
Maybe all the stings inside him broke. -- John Green
Chip did not believe in having a sock drawer or a T-shirt drawer. He believed that all drawers were created equal and filled each with whatever fit. My mother would have died. -- John Green
And it was just the three of us - three bodies and two people - the three who knew what had happened and too many layers between all of us too much keeping us from one another. -- John Green
I think maybe I know why,' she finally said.
'Why?'
'Maybe all the strings inside him broke,' she said. -- John Green
You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to. -Q -- John Green
Ninjas don't splash other ninjas," "The true ninja doesn't make a splash at all." I said. -- John Green
Maybe all the strings inside him broke. -- John Green
Tiny and I are sitting with a table full of Drama People, and they are discussing Tiny Dancer, all of them speaking more words per minute than I speak in a day. -- John Green
If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. -- John Green
rightly lived - college and job and husband and babies and all that bullshit." The thing is that I do believe -- John Green
Pudge: Why do smoke so damn fast?
Alska: Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die. -- John Green
All salvation is temporary -- John Green
All pain deserves to be felt -- John Green
I felt so detached from all this shit, all this high-school-is-ending-So-we-have-to-reveal-that-deep-down-we-all-love-everybody bullshit. -- John Green
As he read, I feel in love the way you fall asleep: slow, and then all at once. -- John Green
It is all odd at first, and then it becomes normal - not because
it is normal, but because repetition uns the peculiar. -- John Green
There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze. -- John Green
Not your fault, Hazel Grace. We're all just side effects, right?" "'Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness,'" I said, quoting AIA. -- John Green
That doesn't sound like my Margo, she said, and I thought of my Margo, and all of us looking at her reflection in different funhouse mirrors. -- John Green
She kisses like a sweet devouring, and I don't know where to touch her because I want all of her. -- John Green
The things that hurt us are often the things that help us, and the whole dichotomy between creation and destruction is totally false, I think. We live in a universe that seems committed to making and unmaking all that is possible, you know? -- John Green
Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we're still alone ... each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together. -- John Green
Their sneak-out was over. But by then it was too late. In his mind, Katherine I was already becoming Katherine XIX. She would soon retake the throne that, all along, had rightfully been hers. -- John Green
That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back. -- John Green
But, oh, sweet holy Lord, I would ride that one-legged pony all the way around the corral. -- John Green
And I don't blame him. I don't even trust me. -- John Green
The kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world. t -- John Green
Teenagers think they're invincible -- John Green
Because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering must be endured stoically, says, "You feel what, Tiny?". -- John Green
The whole passage was underlined in bleeding, water-soaked black ink. But there was another ink, this one a crisp blue, post-flood, and an arrow led from "How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast. -- John Green
Perhaps okay will be our always. -- John Green
Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down -- John Green
I want to, like, drink wine and talk about the Middle East or whatever the fuck we're gonna want to do when we're old. -- John Green
I can't be mad at you, you harmless scrawny bastard. -- John Green
You just gotta tell her, man,' I said. 'You just gotta say, "Angela, I really like you, but there's something you need to know: when we go to my house and hook up, we'll be watched by the twenty-four hundred eyes of twelve hundred black Santas. -- John Green
Wait, wait. I don't get it.'
'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells. -- John Green
Augustus: I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up.
Hazel: And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you. -- John Green
I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory - recalled only on the anniversary of her death, or maybe a couple of weeks after, remembering only after having forgotten. -- John Green
And then he wanted to say he was sorry, but just that sometimes he felt un-understandable and sometimes he worried when they bickered and she went a while without saying she loved him, but he restrained himself. -- John Green
13 Among many, many others, the following things were definitely not interesting: the pupillary sphincter, mitosis, baroque architecture, jokes that have physics -- John Green
Things never happened like I imagined them. -- John Green
When you're as charming and physically attractive as myself, it's easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to love you ... now, that's the trick. -- John Green
Ahhhhhhhggg. Oh sweet Lord Jesus, my hand." He attempted to make a fist and winced. "I think Chuck Parson had a textbook strapped to his stomach."
"Those are called abs", I told him. -- John Green
How dangerous it is to assume that a person is more than a person. -- John Green
I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life? -- John Green
As he held her by the waist,she leaned forward,her pouty lips parted,her head just slightly tilted,and eveloped his mouth with such passion that I felt I should look away but couldn't. -- John Green
For a long time, I was mad at you. The way you cut me out of everything hurt me, and so I kept what I knew to myself. But then even after I wasn't mad anymore, I still didn't say anything, and I don't even really know why. -- John Green
It pains me to say this, Colin, but if you wish to continue to grow intellectually, you need to work harder right now than you ever have before. Otherwise you, you risk wasting your potential."
"Technically," Colin answered, "I think I might have already wasted it. -- John Green
I felt this weird mix of disappointment and anger welling up inside of me. -- John Green
I look at Jane for a long time and a slow smile creeps over her face. Her whole face changes when she smiles - this eyebrow-lifting, perfect-teeth-showing, eye-crinkling smile I've either never seen or never noticed. She becomes pretty so suddenly that it's almost like a magic trick -- John Green
Hi, I'm at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube. -- John Green
I've been in a long-distance relationship for years," Abe said.
"It's really challenging."
"With who?"
"With whom. And with you, Featherstone. I'm in a relationship
with you, but you're a long distance from being in a relationship with
me back. -- John Green
It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations. -- John Green
Let me be frank with you, kid. Those people know how to parent like I know how to diet. I've worked with them before, and I don't like them. -- John Green
Miles, as in 'to go before I sleep'? -- John Green
Margo was not a miracle.She was not an adventure.She was not a fine and precious thing.She was just a girl. -- John Green
Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will -- John Green
His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. -- John Green
Bismillah." Then he picked up his fork. "That's it?" Hollis wondered. "That's it. We are a terse people. Terse, and also hungry. -- John Green
Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest. -- John Green
He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening. -- John Green
[T]here is something to recommend a story that ends. -- John Green
You just use the future to escape the past. -- John Green
I just want you to be happy. If that's with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy. -- John Green
My friendship with Esther Earl began, as so many great love stories do, at a Harry Potter convention. -- John Green
It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace... -- John Green
So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane. -- John Green
Yeah," he said. "Maybe someday." He sighed in a way that made me wonder whether he was confident about the existence of someday. I knew osteosarcoma was highly curable, but still. -- John Green
We are now as I wished we would be then. -- John Green
We are not as frail as the strings would make us believe. -- John Green
Pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower! -- John Green
But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him. -- John Green
And then, having made my rhetorical point, I will put my robot eyes on, because I mean, with robot eyes you can probably see through girls' shirts and stuff. Augustus, my friend, Godspeed. -- John Green
When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him." I -- John Green
His goofy grin. I watched my own screen through squinted eyes as the mountain grew with the bodies of Persians and Spartans. When the Persians finally overran the Spartans, I looked over at Augustus again. Even though the good guys had just lost, Augustus seemed downright -- John Green
Radar threw his books into his locker and shut it. Then the din of conversation around us quieted just a bit as he turned his eyes toward the heavens and shouted, IT IS NOT MY FAULT THAT MY PARENTS OWN THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF BLACK SANTAS. -- John Green
Too many times when I was a kid, I would put my hands together and squinch my eyes shut and I would devote fully to hoping for something -- John Green
So it's your death suit."
"Correct. Don't you have a death outfit?"
"Yeah," I said. "It's a dress I bought for my fifteenth birthday party. But I don't wear it on dates."
His eyes lit up. "We're on a date?" he asked.
I looked down, feeling bashful. "Don't push it. -- John Green
I sat at the computer, my eyes closed, elbows against the desk, and listened to a voice singing in a minor key. -- John Green
Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone, anyone, love me? -- John Green
I could try to pretend that I didn't care anymore, but it could never be true again. You can't just make yourself matter, and then die, Alaska, because now, I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. -- John Green
That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste. -- John Green
I missed the future. -- John Green
It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four. -- John Green
True love will triumph in the end - which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have. -- John Green
We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to. -- John Green
I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking! -- John Green
Children's hospitals are not designed for teenagers. -- John Green
We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone. -- John Green
She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom. -- John Green
There are times when it is appropriate, even preferable, to get an erection when someone's face is in close proximity to your penis.
This was not one of those times. -- John Green
I have this thing that keeps me from being interested in prom dresses, it's called a penis. -- John Green
And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to. -- John Green
I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school. -- John Green
When we sat down, Lacey started reading "Song of Myself," and she agreed that none of it sounded like anything and certainly none of it sounded like Margo. We still had no idea what, if anything, Margo was trying to say. She gave the book back to me, and they started talking about prom again. -- John Green
Tiny and I are talking again ... but there's nothing inside our words. Honestly, talking to him is worse than not. Talking to him makes me feel like I'm drowning in lukewarm water. -- John Green
It's a mad, mad world when your best friend is a dog and your second-best friend is an automatic rifle, but such was life in the Aze. -- John Green
Everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertone, -- John Green
But nothing violates the rules of shutting up and not caring so much as flirting - except possibly for that enchantingly horrible moment when you act upon the flirting, that moment where you seal your heartbreak with a kiss. -- John Green
I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together. -- John Green
Damn truth, always resisting simplicity. -- John Green
I'm a lot better now," I said. "I'm going to Amsterdam tomorrow with Gus." "I know. I'm pretty well up-to-date on your life, because Gus never. Talks. About. Anything. Else." I -- John Green
SO THIS IS HOW NOAH FELT. You wake up one morning and God has forgiven you and you walk around squinting all day because you've forgotten how sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad, and the whole world is brighter and cleaner than ever before, -- John Green
I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia. -- John Green
I'm not asexual. I'm arelationshipal. -- John Green
Patience, grasshoper -- John Green
It's not poetry. It's not metaphor. It's instructions. -- John Green
Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa. -- John Green
The way we still essentializ, we're constantly essentializing people as merely poor, or merely other, and in the end you can't have a relationship with people. I think the biggest job of adulthood is to learn to imagine other people complexly. -- John Green
High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change. -- John Green
If anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. -- John Green
Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love? -- John Green
Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever. -- John Green
I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite. -- John Green
The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up. -- John Green
The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more. -- John Green
They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting. -- John Green
And then I just started muttering stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid over and over again until the sound unhinged from its meaning. -- John Green
I hardly know you, Augustus Waters. You could be an ax murderer -- John Green
You've forgotten how sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad, and the whole world is brighter and clearer than ever before. -- John Green
Can't wear it to the opera," said the Colonel, almost smiling. "Can't wear it to a funeral. Can't use it to hang myself. It's a bit useless, as ties go. -- John Green
Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person. -- John Green
I brought you a snack," Takumi said, dropping an oatmeal cream pie onto my book.
"Very nutritious," I smiled.
"You've got your oats. You've got your meal. You've got your cream. It's a fuckin' food pyramid. -- John Green
For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, "Run run run run run," and took off, pulling me behind her. -- John Green
And in more freedom, most people find sin. -- John Green
it is the nature of stars to cross -- John Green
I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd be doing smething else. -- John Green
She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. -- John Green
And then I couldn't wait anymore, and my hand was on the back of her head, and then her lips on mine, the cold air gone and replaced with the warmth of her mouth, soft and sweet and hash-brown-tastic -- John Green
I didn't know what to say to her - I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side. -- John Green
Was there time for her life to flash before her eyes? Was I there? -- John Green
Say your life broke down. The last good kiss/ you had was years ago. -- John Green
The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you. -- John Green
I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters. -- John Green
I want to leave a mark.
But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars. -- John Green
What did Dom Perignon say to fellow monks after he invented champagne? ... Come quickly, I am tasting the stars. -- John Green
It's hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist. -- John Green
Between the three of us, we have five legs, four eyes & two & a half working pairs of lungs. -- John Green
Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond. -- John Green
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. -- John Green
The problem, of course, is that there's no way of knowing that your last good day is your Last Good Day. At the time, it's just another good day. -- John Green
Out of nowhere, Augustus asked, do you believe in an after life? -- John Green
Perhaps a special wing at the Museum of Crazy should be erected in my honor. -- John Green
And then she said, 'Let's play Truth or Dare' and then you fucked her."
"Wait, you fucked her? In front of the Colonel?" Takumi cried.
"I didn't fuck her."
"Calm down, guys," the Colonel said, throwing up his hands. "It's a euphemism."
"For what?" Takumi asked.
"Kissing. -- John Green
You gave me a forever within the numbered days and i can't tell you how thankful i am for our little infinity -- John Green
I and this mystery here we stand. -- John Green
Its a metaphor, you see. You put the killing in your mouth but you don't give it the power to kill. A metaphor. -- John Green
There are many more jobs out there than you have ever heard of. Your dream job might not yet exist. If you had told 'College Me' that I would become a professional YouTuber, I would've been like, "That is not a word, and it never should be." -- John Green
Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could. -- John Green
You have my word. And I'll see you. We're not done seeing each -- John Green
I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type. -- John Green
Dude, if Kentucky is going to remind you of Paris, we're in a hell of a pickle. -- John Green
And (b) Kissing someone so that you can get a free trip is perilously close to full-on hooking -- John Green
It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings. -- John Green
I said 'I'm sorry, sir, but we don't speak Swedish.'
'Well, of course you don't. Neither do I. Who the hell speaks Swedish? -- John Green
This is so much fun, but I'm so sleepy. To be continued? -- John Green
Maybe there's something you're afraid to say or someone you're afraid to love or somewhere you're afraid to go -- John Green
Like everyone, I'm saddened and horrified by this. All I'll say is that I'm personally trying to pay more attention to the victims than to their murderer. I certainly will not be mentioning the murderer. I don't think he warrants our attention-particularly since he so clearly wanted it. -- John Green
I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think ... -- John Green
If I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go? -- John Green
It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now. -- John Green
So dawn goes dawn goes down to day, nothing gold can stay."
"without pain how could we know joy?"
"Come quickly I tasting the stars"
"I fell in love the way you fall asleep:slowly, and then all at once"
"What a slut time is she srews everybody. -- John Green
There's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered. -- John Green
The afterlife mattered to me. Heaven and hell and reincarnation. As much as I wanted to know how Alaska had died, I wanted to know where she was now, if anywhere. -- John Green
Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul. -- John Green
Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway -- John Green
I like that I can drive 15 hours from home without the world changing too much. -- John Green
I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is. -- John Green
I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness. -- John Green
I love you present tense," I whispered, and then put my hand on the middle of his chest and said, "It's okay, Gus. It's okay. It is. It's okay, you hear me?" I had - and have - absolutely no confidence that he could hear me. I leaned forward and kissed his cheek. "Okay," I said. "Okay. -- John Green
Why is being a nerd so bad?
saying " I noticed you're a nerd is like saying hey, I noticed you'd rather be intelligent that stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan -- John Green
But I did get to see the sunrise from 36,000 feet above the ground, and it occurred to me that until a century ago, no one in all of human history had ever seen that. -- John Green
The light filtered throught the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow. -- John Green
I love making YouTube videos. I love Tumblr, I love Twitter. I love talking with people I find interesting about stuff I find interesting, and the Internet is a great way to do that. -- John Green
We never be hopeless, beacuse we never be irrapablely broken. -- John Green
The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny ... Alright, it's a little funny. -- John Green
Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich -- John Green
Let's make a deal: You figure out what the labyrinth is and how to get out of it, and i'll get you laid. -Alaska Young -- John Green
Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them. -- John Green
Love is graphable!" Colin said defensively. "Right. Because relationships are so predictable, right? -- John Green
Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasure of existence. -- John Green
I wanted ... " I said.
"I know," he said. "I know. Apparently the world is not a wish-granting factory." That made me smile a little. -- John Green
You were clearly not doing your part in the clover search, perv. -- John Green
She was up and down - from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes. -- John Green
She felt like her whole body was one big network of streamers. If they connected right now, she imagined it would feel about like being struck by lightening. -- John Green
But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn't really emotionally ready to write about at ten.'
'Fair enough,' I say. 'But in the revision, I want to get some action. -- John Green
He took a long drink, then grimaced. "I do not have a drinking problem," he announced, his voice needlessly loud. "I have a Churchillian relationship with alcohol: I can crack jokes and govern England and do anything I want to do. Except not drink. -- John Green
Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible. t -- John Green
Augustus Waters was sitting on the front step as we pulled into the driveway. He was holding a bouquet of bright orange tulips just beginning to bloom. -- John Green
The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again. -The Fault In Our Stars -- John Green
As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean:
"Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it."
"What's that?" Anna asked.
"Water," the Dutchman said. "Well, and time. -- John Green
The sun was a toddle insistently refusing to go to bed; it was past 8:30 and still light. -- John Green
His excitement was adorable. I couldn't resist. I leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. -Hazel Grace Lancaster, The Fault In Our Stars -- John Green
I spent your Wish on that doucheface," I said into his chest.
"Hazel Grace. No. I will grant you that you did spend my one and only Wish, but you did not spend it on him. You spent it on us. -- John Green
I love you present tense. -- John Green
Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed. -- John Green
Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told. -- John Green
Among many, many others, the following things were definitely not interesting: the pupillary sphincter, mitosis, baroque architecture, jokes that have physics equations as punch lines, the British monarchy, Russian grammar, and the significant role that salt has played in human history. -- John Green
If people were rain, I was drizzle. She was hurricane. -- John Green
The vast majority of child prodigies don't become adult geniuses. -- John Green
I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.. -- John Green
When a guy and a girl get together, he puts his thing where she urinates and gets her period -- John Green
He was too smart for the kinds of solace I could offer. -- John Green
I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen. -- John Green
I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn't sound dumb. -- John Green
I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me on my back and she on her side with her arm draped against me, her head on my shoulder, facing me. Not doing anything - just lying there together beneath the sky, the night here so well lit that it drowns out the stars. -- John Green
The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being? -- John Green
My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces. It signified that I trusted them, that I was myself in front of them. -- John Green
Are you trying to be subtle? Because I know you're talking about the honeybunnyless prom tragedy that is my life. -- John Green
I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I've never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero's errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done. -- John Green
WHAT AM I GOING TO DO? Tiny shouts in my ear, and I want to say, Hopefully, go find a guy who knows there is no u in awesome -- John Green
Fuck Lara, fuck Jake because I do, Alaska Young, I do love you and what else matters but that. -- John Green
I'll give you my strength if I can have your remission. -- John Green
And his spirit soared like an indomitable eagle until the world itself could not contain his joyous soul. -- John Green
I could not hear the words, but I could hear the worry. -- John Green
We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl. -- John Green
I mean, I am pretty fabulous. Am I not?'
'You're a pillar of fabulosity in the community,' I tell him. -- John Green
I imagine it's hard to go back once you've felt the continents in your palm. -- John Green
I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that's hard to look at.. -- John Green
Leaving feels too good, once you leave. -- John Green
One of the reasons you're so terrified about figuring out what you're gonna do with your life is that you think you're only gonna be able to do one thing. -- John Green
Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you're a nerd is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that? -- John Green
You're awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted. -- John Green
What I resorted to in desperation - prayer - was what I should have turned to first. I felt as if God had tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Excuse me, mind if I give it a try? -- John Green
I Spy with my little eye a hero's heart, a heart that beats not for itself but for all humanity."
"I'M NOT BEING MODEST. I JUST DIDN'T WANT TO DIE," Ben exclaims. -- John Green
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken. -- John Green
I just want to remember her. One last time, I want to remember her while still hoping to see her again -- John Green
AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.
'So that's Sara,' I said.
'Yes.'
'She seems nice. -- John Green
Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories. -- John Green
i get it now. i get it. the things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end. i -- John Green
Nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource. -- John Green
I've always sort of preferred people who are not entirely likable. -- John Green
But in AIA, Anna decides that being a person with cancer who starts a cancer charity is a bit narcissistic, so she starts a charity called The Anna Foundation for People with cancer Who Want to Cure Cholera. -- John Green
That smile could end wars and cure cancer. -- John Green
I couldn't be mad at him for even a moment, and only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation ... -- John Green
Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn't unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn't want to. -- John Green
You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers. -- John Green
It was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, -- John Green
She's adorable ." "How would you know?" "I'm gay, not blind. Her hair's all poofy and she's got a great nose. I mean, a great nose. And, what? What do you people like? Boobs? She seems to have boobs. They seem to be of approximately normal boob size. What else do you want? -- John Green
What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible? -- John Green
She used that word at some point referring to her family's love, infinite, and I thought about how infinite is not a large number. It is something else entirely. It is boundlessness. -- John Green
Going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight. -- John Green
Tiny takes a shot, grimaces, and exhales. "Tastes like Satan's fire cock," Tiny says, and then pushes another shot in my direction. "Sounds delightful," I say, "but I'll pass. -- John Green
The fault in our stars was the best story book it was amazing -- John Green
You do not know how to shut me up, Hazel Grace. -- John Green
Hi," I said. "How are you?" "Grand. -- John Green
Eternity bids thee to forget. -- John Green
Digital communication is such a problem sometimes. -- John Green
Memorial was so functional. It was a storage facility. A prematorium. -- John Green
I never took another picture of him. -- John Green
Nerd girls are the world's most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness. -- John Green
Sometimes it seems that the universe wants to be noticed... -- John Green
Like Emily Dickinson, I ain't afraid of slant rhyme / And that's the end of this verse; emcee's out on a high. -- John Green
But that's a lie, and you know it. -- John Green
An ambulance, lights and sirens blaring, sped past us, going in the opposite direction, toward school, and for an instant, I felt a nervous excitement and thought, it could be someone I know. I almost wished it was someone I knew, to give new form and depth to the sadness I still felt. -- John Green
There is no Them. There are only facets of Us. -- John Green
Ignorance is bliss -- John Green
When people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals -- John Green
How strange that there would be exactly twenty-four German carpenters in Chicago when the all-night manicure place on the corner of Oakley and Lawrence is called "24/7 Nails. -- John Green
You should see it," he said. "V for Vendetta, I mean."
"Okay," I said. "I'll look it up."
"No. With me. At my house," he said. "Now. -- John Green
Most important pursuit in history: the search for meaning. -- John Green
That's no pig," answered Hassan in English. "That's a goddamned monster." The pig stopped its rotting and looked up at them. "I mean. Wilbur is a fugging pig. Babe is a fugging pig. That thing was birthed from the loins of Iblis." (Arabic: Satan) -- John Green
I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come. -- John Green
At some point, you just pull off the band aid and it hurts. But when it is over, you are relieved. -- John Green
The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me. -- John Green
When was the last good kiss you had? -- John Green
If I could just stay alive for a week, I'd know the unwritten secrets of Anna's mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy. -- John Green
As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text. -- John Green
Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children. -- John Green
To be fair to Monica," I said, "what you did to her wasn't very nice either."
"What'd I do to her?" he asked, defensive.
"You know, going blind and everything."
"But that's not my fault," Isaac said.
"I'm not saying it was your fault. I'm saying it wasn't nice. -- John Green
If people were rain i was drizzle and she was a hurrican. -- John Green
At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part. -- John Green
That's like promise.At least for tonight.In sickness,in health.In good times and in bad.For richer,for poorer.Till dawn do us apart. -- John Green
You can't stop the future from coming -- John Green
If you ever do decide to write anything else, even if you don't want to publish it, I'd love to read it. Frankly, I'd read your grocery lists. -- John Green
All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby. -- John Green
You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever. -- John Green
Great people especially must be careful about what they worship. -- John Green
Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy? edit -- John Green
Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale, I said. -- John Green
I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were ... miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around. -- John Green
Does it hurt?" I asked. "No. Just." He stared at the ceiling for a long time before saying, "I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like the sound of Dutch people speaking Dutch. And now ... I don't even get a battle. I don't get a fight. -- John Green
I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch. -- John Green
There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward. -- John Green
You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice. -- John Green
The next morning I had Twentieth-Century American Poetry at MCC. This old woman gave a lecture wherein she managed to talk for ninety minutes about Sylvia Plath without ever once quoting a single word of Sylvia Plath. -- John Green
The store that was Agloe no longer stands. But I believe that if we were to put it back on our maps, someone would eventually rebuild it. -- John Green
But you keep the promise anyway. That's What love is. Keeping the promise anyway -- John Green
My head was level with hers as we stared at each other from opposite sides of the glass. I don't remember how it ended - if I went to bed or she did. In my memory, it doesn't end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever. -- John Green
One day you wake up and you realize something, you see something in a way that you never saw it before, and boom, epiphany. Something is different forever. -- John Green
The fault is not in our stars but it's in our selves -- John Green
I'm Chip Martin," he announced in a deep voice, the voice of a radio deejay. Before I could respond, he added, "I'd shake your hand, but I think you should hold on damn tight to that towel till you can get some clothes on. -- John Green
I thought you hung the moon. -- John Green
Shame about how we're gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab
and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It's the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is sodomy'. -- John Green
The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't. -- John Green
Generally, I am opposed to vandalism. But I am also generally opposed to Lacey Pemberton- and in the end, that proved to be the more deeply held conviction. -- John Green
She spoke quietly then, the tiniest crack in her voice, and all at once Lacey Pemerton was not Lacey Pemberton. She was just - like, a person. -- John Green
I mean, it's stupid to miss someone you didn't even get along with. But I don't know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with. -- John Green
The marks we leave are too often scars. -- John Green
I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years. -- John Green
The town was paper, but the memory was not. -- John Green
It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I just looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed and turned away, placing the side of his head against the window. -- John Green
We are going to right a lot of wrong and we are going to wrong some rights -- John Green
You will do to the paper towns and you will never come back -- John Green
You will leave to the paper towns and never come back. -- John Green
I think my school friends wanted to help me through cancer, but they eventually found out that they couldn't. For one thing, there was no through. -- John Green
Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel. -- John Green
Are you currently at your house?" he asked.
"Um, no," I said.
"That was a trick question. I knew the answer, because I am currently at your house. -- John Green
Sinking. Sinking, but instead of feeling panic or anything else, I realized that "Please guys, don't" were terrible last words. -- John Green
Time's a slut, she screws with everyone. -- John Green
He looked up at me. It was horrible. I could hardly look at him. The Augustus Waters of the crooked smiles and unsmoked cigarettes was gone, replaced by this desperate humiliated creature sitting there beneath me. -- John Green
Coal miners don't get coal miners' block. -- John Green
I thought of telling her that I was seeing a boy, too, or at least that I'd watched a movie with one, just because I knew it would surprise and amaze her that anyone as disheveled and awkward and stunted as me could even briefly win the affections of a boy. -- John Green
I, however did not like to run. Or, for that matter, engage in any kind of physical exertion. -- John Green
It must be some book," she said as she knelt down next to the bed ... "Did that boy give it to you?" She asked out of nowhere.
"By 'it' do you mean herpes?"
"You are too much," Mom said, "The book, Hazel. I mean the book. -- John Green
Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous. -- John Green
I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person. -- John Green
I am pretty unextraordinary, ~ Hazel Grace Lancaster. -- John Green
What's your name ?
Hazel .
No , your full name .
Um , Hazel Grace Lancaster . -- John Green
Funerals, I decided, are for the living. - Hazel Grace Lancaster -- John Green
But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. - Hazel Grace Lancaster -- John Green
There's a great quote in Gus's house, one that both he and I found very comforting: Without pain, we couldn't know joy. - Hazel Grace Lancaster -- John Green
But pizza was originally Italian, although, Italian pizza doesn't taste much like this because this pizza is fortified with sodium. Which is a mineral ... or a vitamin. All I know is that it's good for you. -- John Green
As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story. -- John Green
I want to minimize the number of
deaths I am responsible for, -- John Green
I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay? -- John Green
Time his depressingly miserable life story - how -- John Green
Unfortunately for the Culver Creek Nothings, we weren't playing the deaf-and-blind school. We were playing some Christian school from downtown Birmingham, a team stocked with huge, gargantuan apemen with thick beards and a strong distaste for turning the other cheek. -- John Green
I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise. -- John Green
You are fairly smart," I said after a while.
"You are fairly good at compliments," he answered. -- John Green
Television is a passivity. -- John Green
It is so hard to leave - until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. -- John Green
The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking. -- John Green
At times, quotes from the books talk more about our lives than on the lives of the characters. -- John Green
The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves -- John Green
I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. I preferred the Colonel: At least when he was cranky, he had a reason. -- John Green
Cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. -- John Green
I was kidding, Hazel Grace. I understand. ( But we both know that okay is a very flirty word. Okay is BURSTING with sensuality.) -- John Green
I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering. -- John Green
In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you. -- John Green
Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands. - Kaitlyn -- John Green
But he didn't survive a war, not really," Augustus said. "He survived a genocide. -- John Green
In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with. -- John Green
Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie. -- John Green
Oh, my god," Augustus said. "I can't believe I have a crush on a girl with such cliche wishes."
"I was thirteen," I said again, although of course I was only thinking "crush crush crush crush crush". I was flattered but changed the subject immediately. -- John Green
Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such things is a valuable part of being a person. -- John Green
Remembered. Like, if we got organized, and assigned a certain number of corpses to each living person, would there be enough living people to remember all the dead people? -- John Green
It's true that I want to smother her with compliments and true that I want to keep my distance. True that I want her to like me and true that I don't. -- John Green
What a slut time is-she screws everyone. -- John Green
Van Houten, I'm a good person but a shitty writer. you're a shitty person but a good writer. -- John Green
There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. -- John Green
When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone. -- John Green
Yeah, well call me unpatriotic, but I see don't see the cheerleader thing. Cheer isn't sexy. Dark is sexy. Ambivalent is sexy. Deeper-than-it-looks-at-first-glance is sexy. -- John Green
All hurt is brain hurt. -- John Green
What a mistake it was to distill the poem into something worthless -- John Green
We are all just side effects. -- John Green
I loved her present tense. -- John Green
There were maybe eighty chairs set up in the room, and it was two-thirds full but felt one-third empty. -- John Green
I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position. -- John Green
So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss ... A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost. -- John Green
If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat. -- John Green
I was beginning to think that I was the subject of some existentialist experiment in permanently delayed gratification when -- John Green
Dated when we were sophomores and we've been hooking up occasionally ever since. But we came out here and I was going to end it."
" ... she just said it's over, okay? So that's it. It's over. I'm not cheating. -- John Green
It looked like an old painting, but real. -- John Green
The thing about pain is that it demands to be felt. -- John Green
Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good - and amazingly underutilized - resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences. -- John Green
If you don't know about Tumblr then you are not supposed to know about Tumblr. It's like fight club. -- John Green
I'm interested in Internet cultures. I'm interested in what the teenagers who drive the Internet culture are passionate about. I follow their lead - they go to tumblr, I go to tumblr. -- John Green
Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food. -- John Green
Everything's uglier close up -Margo Roth Spiegelman -- John Green
Margo says, I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right. -- John Green
curvy." I liked Lacey, but I saw Margo's -- John Green
I stopped at a stop sign at the end of the street, and Margo said, "What the hell? Go go go go go," and I said, "Oh, right," because I had forgotten that I was throwing caution to the wind and everything. -- John Green
The fundamental mistake I had always made ... was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl. (pg. 199) -- John Green
Forever is composed of nows. - Margo Roth Spiegelman -- John Green
I mean, we're ninjas."
"Well maybe you're a ninja," I said
"You're just a really loud, awkward ninja," Margo said, "but we are both ninjas. -- John Green
They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father. -- John Green
My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner -- John Green
Some wars," he said dismissively. "What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart is made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner. -- John Green
When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life. -- John Green
They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing. -- John Green
Dear World, I am not hot for Will Grayson. But world, there's something else you should know about Will Grayson." And then he begins to sing, a Broadway baritone as big as his waist, "I can't live without him! -- John Green
And he missed her all over his body. He missed her like crazycakes. But he felt, in the throbbing missing piece inside him, that she didn't long for him like that. -- John Green
Colin sat back down to work at -- John Green
Nothing's wrong. Everything's right. Things couldn't be righter. Things could be less tired. They could be less busy. They could be less caffeinated. But they couldn't be righter. -- John Green
I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. -- John Green
I said to Augustus, "Observation: Standing in line is a form of oppression," and he said, "Seriously. -- John Green
He was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness. -- John Green
Pain demands to be felt, he said, which was a line from An Imperial Affliction. -- John Green
standing in line is a form of oppression -- John Green
Weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. -- John Green
We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them. -- John Green
Don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I -- John Green
Forever is composed of nows," she says. I have nothing to say to that; I am just chewing through it when Margo says, "Emily Dickinson. Like I said, I'm doing a lot of reading. -- John Green
I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now. -- John Green
He missed her like crazycakes. -- John Green
I've gotten thrown out of thirty-seven straight games,' he said. 'Once or twice, I've had to go really crazy. I ran onto the court with eleven seconds left once and stole the ball from the other team. It wasn't pretty. But, you know. I have a streak to maintain. -- John Green
I like watching you sleep. -- John Green
You can't know, sweetie, because you've never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness. -- John Green
I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb. -- John Green
Can I ask you about Caroline Mathers?"
"And you say there's no afterlife. -- John Green
Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you. -- John Green
Hazel is different. She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. Hazel knows the truth: we're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we are not likely to either. -- John Green
Because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you. -- John Green
The secret of leaving, the secret I have only just now learned: leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. - Quentin -- John Green
He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory? -- John Green
What a slut time is. She screws with everybody. -- John Green
His enthusiasm was adorable. -- John Green
My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun. -- John Green
He may be a malevolent sorcerer, but Tiny Cooper is his own goddamned man, and if he wants to be a gigantic skipper, then that's his right as a huge American. -- John Green
The marks humans leave are too ofter scars. -- John Green
But monotony doesn't make for painlessness. -- John Green
I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing. -- John Green
Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.
[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012] -- John Green
I don't want to be thin or conventionally beautiful or straight or brilliant. No, what I really want - and what I never get - is to be appreciated. -- John Green
People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die. -- John Green
We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad. -- John Green
Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story. -- John Green
We were just standing there, and her eyes were so interesting. Not in the usual way of being interesting, like being extremely blue or extremely big or flanked by obscenely long lashes or anything. -- John Green
I always like routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. -- John Green
Margo was so beautiful that even her fake smiles were convincing. (54) -- John Green
Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die? -- John Green
We're not going to break anything. Don't think of it as breaking in to SeaWorld. Think of it as visiting SeaWorld in the middle of the night for free. -- John Green
You're cute when you're confident. And less when you're not. -John Green, Paper Towns -- John Green
It's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. -- John Green
She loved so much misteries tha she became one -- John Green
Paper Towns for a Paper Girl, who wants to think and read clearly -- John Green
I don't believe in prom,' I reminded her as she rounded a corner. I expertly angled my raisin bran to accomodate the g-forces. I'd done this before. -- John Green
I have never really thought of him as a person, either ... A guy whose strings were broken, who didn't feel the root of his leaves of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Like me. -- John Green
forever is composed of nows -- John Green
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
The thing is that I do believe in college, and jobs, and maybe even babies one day. I believe in the future. Maybe it's a character flaw, but for me it is a congenital one. -- John Green
I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared. -- John Green
How can you seperate those things though? The people are the place is the people. -- John Green
Do you guys remember that one time, in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, that we somehow didn't die? -- John Green
You don't give a shit if people like you. -- John Green
This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die.- Paper Towns -- John Green
I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee. -- John Green
I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them
the bad kids and the good kids and all kids
as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for. -- John Green
All those poeple living in their paper houses, burning they paper future to stay warm. All the paper kids, drinking paper beer some bum bought for them at the paper convienience store ... All this things paper-thin and paper-frail. -- John Green
We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers. -- John Green
From the front Rdar announces, "Don't you go talking bad about GoFast bars. Do you want me to stop this car?"
"Whenever I eat a GoFast bar," Ben says, "I'm always like, 'So this is what blood tastes like to mosquitoes. -- John Green
Its a paper town, with paper houses and paper people, everything is uglier up close. -- John Green
A Margo for each of us
and each more mirror than window. -- John Green
At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too. -- John Green
On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are. -- John Green
ALSO BY JOHN GREEN Looking for Alaska ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... An Abundance of Katherines ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Paper Towns ... ... ... ... ... ... Will Grayson, Will Grayson WITH DAVID LEVITHAN -- John Green
We imagine people as animals or gods. -But she was just a person, a girl. -- John Green
It's more impressive," I said out loud. "From a distance, I mean. You can't see the wear on things, you know? You can't see the rust or the weeds or the paint cracking. You see the place as someone once imagined it. -- John Green
I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to the words in the middle. (32) -- John Green
Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop. -- John Green
You're upsetting the black Santas. -- John Green
I'd been in the dark so long I was still craving it. -- John Green
It became a weekend of reading, of trying to see her in the fragments of the poem she'd left for me. -- John Green
A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it. -- John Green
These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons. They strain against the string and strain against it, and then something happens, and that string gets cut, and they just float away. ( ... ) But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. -- John Green
What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person. -- John Green
You're just a really loud, awkward ninja, but we are both ninjas. -- John Green
All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. -- John Green
You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone. -- John Green
The town was paper, but the memories were not. -- John Green
I believe we have a choice in this world about how to tell sad stories , on the one hand , we can sugercoat it. Nothing is too messed up that can't be fixed with a Peter Gabriel song, I like this version as much as the next girl does. It's just not the truth -- John Green
This one's for Alaska Young! -- John Green
Anyway, that was the last good day I had with Gus until the Last Good Day. -- John Green
Eureka' Colin said, and only in saying it did he realize he had just successfully whispered. -- John Green
She's screaming back, louder than I thought possible. "You're not even pissed at me, Q! You're pissed at this idea of me you keep inside your brain from when we were little!" She -- John Green
but somehow when it's real, when it's your life . . . that person can feel even farther off and more unobtainable than an actual celebrity. Proximity doesn't breed familiarity. -- John Green
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species. -- John Green
I'm going to stay in the wrong because I don't know how to get through the thicket of my own mind in order to reach whatever it is that I'm supposed to. I'm going to stay the same, and the same, and the same, until I die of it. -- John Green
That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting wrongs, defending the weak, protecting the endangered. -- John Green
Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it's worth. -- John Green
In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla, -- John Green
It's funny how they thought we were dating," Colin said, glancing over at her.
"How's that funny?" she asked, holding his gaze.
"Um," he said. Distracted from the road, Colin watched as she gave him the slightest version of her inimitable smile. -- John Green
I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it. -- John Green
Grief doesn't change you. It reveals you. -- John Green
In the end,the rats didn't matter,not really,because I was in a place where Margo had been alive.I was in a place that saw her after I did,and the warmth of that made the minimall almost confortable. -- John Green
I kept thinking the rest of my sentence would emerge from the air passing through my vocal cords, but nothing happened. -- John Green
Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother? -- John Green
I know it's a bit self-aggrandizing."
"Hey, you're stealing my eulogy," Isaac said. "My first bit is about how you were a self-aggrandizing bastard. -- John Green
The thing about dead people ... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is ... complicated, I guess. -- John Green
If people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricaine -- John Green
The literal heart of jesus -- John Green
She refers to herself as the side effect, which is just totally correct. -- John Green
I am not much for philosophy, but that old Descartes, he got me thinking. And therefore being. Anyone? Anyone? Cogito ergo sum jokes? No? Okay. -- John Green
She said Robert Joyner had killed himself with a gun. And then I asked why, and then she told me that he was getting a divorce and was sad about it.'
'Lots of people get divorces and don't kill themselves,' I said.
'I know,' she said, excitement in her voice. 'That's what I told her. -- John Green
Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know? -- John Green
I nudged my head into his shoulder. "Thanks for offering to come over."
"you realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you," he said.
"i guess?" i said.
"all efforts to save me from you will fail," he said. -- John Green
You don't get to choose if get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have a say in who hurts you. -- John Green
You don't get to chose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers. - Augustus Waters -- John Green
The past, like Lindsey had told him, is a logical story. IT's the sense of what happened, But since it is not yet remembered, the future need not make any fugging sense at all. -- John Green
The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether [Catholic voters] will become increasingly conservative, or .. stay swing voters. -- John Green
I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go. -- John Green
I could stand up and go to her and kiss her. I could. But there is still too much to be ruined. -- John Green
Tourists never go to downtown Orlando, because -- John Green
Turn on the lights; I do not want to go home in the dark -- John Green
A pesudovision! You will go to the pseduovision and you wil lnever come back. -- John Green
Agustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so I passed. -- John Green
The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves or other people and we just say the truth. For ten minutes. And then we can go back to being lame. -- John Green
And so. And so I choose to go on serving it. I choose to go north, even though like every other direction, it is rationally without hope. -- John Green
I tried
I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on. -- John Green
Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse. -- John Green
Every book title becomes infinitely better if 'in your pants' or 'from your pants' is added to the title. -- John Green
I never know you until i got to know you through your clues.I like clues more than I like you. -- John Green
Easy comfort isn't comforting -- John Green
She would stay on the road and in hiding, a balloon floating through the sky, eating up hundreds of miles a day with a help of the perpetual tailwind. -- John Green
I hated cranberry sauce, but for some reason my mom persisted in her lifelong belief that it was my very favorite food, even though every single Thanksgiving I politely declined to include it on my plate. -- John Green
Nothing to be gained by worrying between now and then. -- John Green
Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of. -- John Green
I am concussed, I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis. -- John Green
We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. -- John Green
It wasn't a big deal. I got out fine." "You could have died." And I could have, I suppose. But I didn't. -- John Green
I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that's when you get shot down. -- John Green
Van Houten nodded and said, "Did you close the deal with that chick yet?" Whereupon I encountered for the first and only time a truly speechless Augustus Waters. "I," he started, "um, I, Hazel, um. Well." "This boy appears to have some kind of developmental delay," Peter Van Houten said to Lidewij. -- John Green
If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain. -- John Green
I know, right? I really think I want to be a single for a while."
I turn to Jane and say, "I bet you five bucks he'll be in love within four hours."
She laughs. "Make it three and you're on."
"Deal."
We shake. -- John Green
His enthusiasm was adorable. I couldn't resist leaning over to kiss him on the cheek. "Just so you know, I'm right here," Mom said. "Sitting next to you. Your mother. Who held your hand as you took your first infantile steps. -- John Green
But this, too, was a side effect of dying: I could not run or dance or eat foods rich in nitrogen, but in the city of freedom, I was among the most liberated of its residents. -- John Green
I'm so pissed off about it, because - I mean, I wasted so much of my life with him and then he cheats on me and I'm not even particularly, like, depressed about it? -- John Green
said to him quietly, as if I couldn't hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted. -- John Green
He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight. -- John Green
He missed his imagined future. -- John Green
Losing you're co-remember meant losing the memory itself. -- John Green
I was a drizzle and he was a hurricane. -- John Green
I think maybe you try to be odd on purpose. I think you like that. It makes you you and not someone else. -- John Green
We accept the love we think we deserve -- John Green
When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us. -- John Green
I think the future deserves our faith. -- John Green
I am pretty unextraordinary." "I reject that out of hand. Think of something you like. The first thing that comes to mind. -- John Green
I don't think ministering requires a religious context. The number one thing is that every parent is extremely worried about their kid. Of course, when a chaplain shows up, that can exacerbate this worry rather than calm it. -- John Green
Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it. -- John Green
What is wrong with your parents? It's just reading. As a parent myself, I can certainly think of worse habits than reading. Like heroin! At least you're not asking them to preorder some heroin! -- John Green
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin. -- John Green
Missing her kept him awake more than coffee. -- John Green
So God wants you to marry the girl who believed I was a Frenchman suffering from hemorrhoidal Tourette's? -- John Green
for checking the fullness of his bladder. -- John Green
that wild charisma and wanderlust. -- John Green
People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone. -- John Green
For she had embodied the Great Perhaps
she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps. -- John Green
It kept the loneliness of crushlessness from being entirely crushing. -- John Green
What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. -- John Green
I love being in cities with lots of other people, because I'm reminded that there are billions of people like me, and we are each stuck inside of our minds, feverishly trying to crawl out to make connections with other people. -- John Green
She laughed. 'You seem pretty normal.'
'You've never seen Ben snort Sprite up his nose and then spit it out of his mouth,' I said.
'I look like a demented carbonated fountain,' he deadpanned. -- John Green
You know what, coat hanger, I know that you're alone in the world right now and I know it's not easy, but I want you to know that one day you are gonna hold some clothes. -- John Green
You gave me forever within the numbered days. -- John Green
Truth resists simplicity. -- John Green
We were walking away from the car together when Margo reached down for my hand,laced her fingers in mine,and squeezed.I squeezed back and then glanced at her.She nodded her head solemnly,and I nodded back,and then she let go of my hand. -- John Green
I picked the college I attended partly because it had no math requirement. -- John Green
I shall say you will die and none will remember you.) -- John Green
So I came here looking for a Great Perharps -- John Green
Like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows, and that kind of bright, soft light you get when the sun isn't quite setting? That's the light that makes everything better, everything prettier, and today, everything just seemed to be in that light. -- John Green
I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed to me that this was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die. -- John Green
My thoughts are stars that I can not fathom into constillations. -- John Green
But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about. -- John Green
The significance of the rose? I thought. Who gives a shit? What's the significance of the white tulips? That was a question worth answering. -- John Green
Nerds always say they don't give a shit about popularity; but - not having friends sucks. I never liked quote unquote cool kids, personally - I thought they were all dumb little shits. -- John Green
Sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad. -- John Green
She is close enough to me that I can see her, because even now there is the outward sign of visible light, even at night in this parking lot on the outskirts of Algoe. After we kiss, our foreheads touch as we stare at each other. Yes, I can see her almost perfectly in this cracked darkness. -- John Green
The definition of humanness is the opportunity to marvel at the majesty of creation -- John Green
They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car, and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast of high ceilings and few horsepower! -- John Green
Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful. -- John Green
What's the meaning of life? Other people. -- John Green
Nerd life is just so much better than regular life. -- John Green
Nerd life is so much better than regular life. -- John Green
And since she drove to work every morning, I could only use the car on weekends. Well, weekends and the middle of the goddamned night. -- John Green
You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. -- John Green
The true ninja doesn't make a splash at all. -- John Green
Hey, I notice you look like you're coming down off a meth binge and smell vaguely of algae. Were you perchance dancing with a snakebit Margo Roth Spiegelman a couple of hours ago? -- John Green
Radar half raised his hand. I dutifully called on him. Yes, I was wondering if it would be possible for you to write a sestina about Margo Roth Spiegelman's breasts? Your six words are: pink, round, firmness, succulent, supple, and pillowy. -- John Green
Here is Margo Roth Spiegelman, five feet away from me, her lips chapped to cracking, makeup-less, dirt in her fingernails, her eyes silent. I've never seen her eyes dead like that, but then again, maybe I've never seen her eyes before. -- John Green
I hadn't read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction. -- John Green
The smell of perfume left behind. There's not a word for that in English, but Colin knew the French word: sillage. -- John Green
I'm the motherfucking fox," Takumi whispered, both to himself and to me. "No one catch the fox. -- John Green
They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter. -- John Green
She loves mysteries that she became one. -- John Green
What happened?"
"During the kiss?"
"No, with you and Caroline."
"Oh," he said. And then after a second, "Caroline is no longer suffering from personhood. -- John Green
You're so busy being you, you don't realise how unprecedented you are -- John Green
A paper town for a paper girl. -- John Green
A bit behind you, my dad added, and Mom laughed. Anyway, I knew it was stupid, but I felt kind of bad for scrambled eggs. After they finished eating, Dad did the dishes and walked us to the -- John Green
Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave. -- John Green
You'll find my leg under the coffee table. -- John Green
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back. -- John Green
Books: Put them down and they'll wait for you forever. Pay attention to them and they'll always love you back -- John Green
Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect. -- John Green
Mustang, but I shouted it anyway, one last desperate and furtive -- John Green
That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them. -- John Green
C'mon Pudge. I'm teasing. You have to be tough. I didn't know how bad it was
and I'm sorry, and they'll regret it
but you have to be tough. -- John Green
Why are breakfast foods breakfast foods?" I asked them. "Like, why don't we have curry for breakfast?" "Hazel, eat." "But why?" I asked. "I mean, seriously: How did scrambled eggs get stuck with breakfast exclusivity? -- John Green
I cannot stop thinking that she is dead, and I cannot stop thinking that she cannot possibly be dead. People do not just die. I can't catch my breath. -- John Green
A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer. -- John Green
I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile. -- John Green
But you're on my speed dial and I want you to stay there -- John Green
I knew these halls so well - and finally it was starting to feel like they knew me, too. -- John Green
We clinked glasses. I took a sip. The tiny bubbles melted in my mouth and journeyed northward into my brain. Sweet. -- John Green
Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. (Off topic, but: What a slut time is. -- John Green
I thought of my dad telling me that the universe wants to be noticed but what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us as individuals. -- John Green
You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you. -- John Green
She's still taking on water. A dessert blessing, an ocean curse -- John Green
Surely among the many outlandish successes of AMRV is that it has eradicated from human beings our original sin: hope. But I don't have AMRV, which means I still suffer from the cruelest disease of our species, terminal aspiration. -- John Green
How do you look for someone who announces she won't be found, who always leaves clues that lead nowhere, who runs away constantly? You can't! -- John Green
At least it was instant. At least there wasn't any pain.
I knew he was only trying to help, but he didn't get it.
There was pain. A dul endless pain in my gut that wouldn't go away even when I knelt on the stingingly frozen tile of the bathroom, dry-heaving. -- John Green
She is a human being capable of conscious thought, which is a complete fucking miracle, and she is beautiful and we are lucky that she is on the planet with us. -- John Green
Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon. -- John Green
Time is a slut. she screws everyone. -- John Green
You'll live forever in our hearts, big man.
That particularly galled me, because it implied the immortality of those left behind: You will live forever in my memory, because I will live forever! I AM YOUR GOD NOW, DEAD BOY! I OWN YOU! -- John Green
And then I was asleep. That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep, that sleep that is not particularly restful but difficult to wake up from all the same. -- John Green
She waited for me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the breadcrumb tail until it dead-ended into her. -- John Green
Problem with you is that if you talk to her you'll 'uh um uh' your way to disaster. -- John Green
The World is not a wish granting factory"- The Fault In Our Stars -- John Green
Life is not a wish granting factory. -- John Green
that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, -- John Green
Is that so?" he asked. "I'd always thought the world was a wish-granting factory. -- John Green
The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory. -- John Green
Aparrently, life is not a wish-granting factory. - Augustus Waters -- John Green
Apparently, the world is not a
wish-granting factory. -- John Green
One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer. -- John Green
Ninjas don't splash other ninjas, -- John Green
When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really trully and honestly take those back ... -- John Green
Think for one minute of those who have loved you up into this day. -- John Green
We did not say: Don't drive. You're drunk. -- John Green
I thought of Otto Frank not being a father anymore, left with a diary instead of a wife and two daughters. -- John Green
If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers. -- John Green
The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay. -- John Green
Girls think they're only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says, you know, I'm going over to see a boy who is having a nervous breakdown, a boy whose connection to the sense of sight itself is tenuous, and gosh dang it, I am going to wear a dress for him. -- John Green
We only have so long to play in the dirt and ask questions of rivers. -- John Green
It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don't care if that mark is a scar. -- John Green
It's all about falling
you land and get up so you can fall again
it's all about falling
i won't be afraid to hit that wall again -- John Green
High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most. -- John Green
Here's a tip: you're cute when you're confident. And less when you're not. -- John Green
Everything's uglier up close.
Not you. -- John Green
God, 'I love you' really is the gateway drug of breaking up. Saying 'I love you' while walking across the dorm circle inevitably leads to saying 'I love you' while you're doing it. -- John Green
Kaitlyn never wore open-toed shoes on account of how she hated her feet because she felt her second toes were too long, as if the second toe was a window into the soul or something. -- John Green
I am going to read this terrible book with the boring title that does not contain stormtroopers, -- John Green
I hope you and me stay friends this summer, she says. And that helps, for some reason. You can never tell what is going to help. Radar -- John Green
If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? -- John Green
promised minute to return to my window, but not much more. -- John Green
And then I stopped. I cut the whiny voice off midsentence. Because I was sick of it, and it wasn't doing me any good, and anyway, shouldn't I have some say over the endless thoughts running through my head -- John Green
I could turn on my side, and she might turn on her side, too. And then we could kiss. But what's the point of kissing her now, anyway? It won't go anywhere. -- John Green
Maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished -- John Green
Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children. -- John Green
The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me,
extinguishes me. -- John Green
The child who believes there is life after a novel ends. -- John Green
No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness. -- John Green
Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying. -- John Green
That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us. -- John Green
Because relationships are so predictable, right? Well, I'm finding a way to predict them. Take any two people, and even if they've never met each other, the formula will show who's going to break up with whom if they ever date, and approximately how long the relationship will last. -- John Green
I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater. -- John Green
But it's your life. -- John Green
What you must understand about me, Pudge, is that I'm a deeply unhappy person -- John Green
There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do. -- John Green
Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots. -- John Green
There are a thousand ways to look at it ... We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors ... But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters ... The metaphors have implications and imperfections. -- John Green
It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it. -- John Green
But this was the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying, poisoned by an infected G-tube that kept him alive, but not alive enough. -- John Green
Well I don't remember exactly what I called her, but it was something along the lines of sniveling, repulsive, idiotic, backenridden, snaggletoothe, fat-assed bitch with the worst hair in Central Florida and that's saying something. -- John Green
Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous. (pg. 18) -- John Green
Whatever. Great day. Today. Best day of my life. -- John Green
Augustus Waters-style, I read him the letter of lieu of saying hello. -- John Green
The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don't know, all possible outcomes feel as if they are happening. -- John Green
Well, but you can eat Grandma's cookies. They're not bad for you. They were made by Grandma. Grandma wouldn't hurt you. -- John Green
it runs afoul of what i call the birdshit rule. you know, how people say it's good luck if a bird shits on you? and people believe it! i just want to grab them and say, 'dude, don't you realize this whole superstition was made up -- John Green
While the world wasn't build for the humans, we were built for the world -- John Green
We shove the dirt over the book, tamping down the disturbed soil. The grass will grow back soon enough. It will be for us the beautiful uncut hair of graves. -- John Green
The worse the haircut, the better the man. -- John Green
That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep. -- John Green
And people are moody, dude. You gotta get used to living with people. -- John Green
Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist."
"If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree."
"I don't think defeatism is honest, " Dad answered. "I refuse to accept that. -- John Green
Any attempts to feign normal social interactions were just depressing because it was so glaringly obvious that everyone I spoke to for the rest of my life would feel awkward and self-conscious around me, except maybe kids like Jackie who just didn't know any better. -- John Green
We all miss you so much. It just never ends. It feels like we were all wounded in your battle, Caroline. I miss you. I love you. -- John Green
We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved. -- John Green
And I couldn't catch my breath, and my lungs were acting desperate, gasping, pulling me out of the bed trying to find a position that could get them air, and I was embarrassed by their desperation, -- John Green
It's a good life, Hazel Grace. -- John Green
It is a good life, Hazel Grace. -- John Green
All along, I kept thinking, I will never do this again, I will never be here again, this will never be my locker again, Radar and I will never write notes in calculus again -- John Green
Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really). -- John Green
My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster. -- John Green
But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful." - Hazel -- John Green
Oh my god, I am a banana. -- John Green
The Rough Guide to Nepal; The Great Sights of Canada; America by Car; Fodor's Guide to the Bahamas; Let's go Bhutan. -- John Green
I had always liked him, but it never really occurred to me to like him, like him. -- John Green
In that moment, the future - uncontainable by any Theorem mathematical or otherwise - stretched out before Colin: infinite and unknowable and beautiful. -- John Green
Hazel Grace, I love it when you talk medical to me. -- John Green
In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business - and I wanted to try to reflect that. -- John Green
But it is a pipe."
"No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever. -- John Green
My heart is broken, Tiny says, as if the thing has never happened before to him, as if it has never happened before to anyone. -- John Green
Beware of that monster called 'self-loathing'. -- John Green
I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. -- John Green
VAN HOUTEN!" I shouted. "Are you okay? Was that a cough?" "Kaitlyn, I love you. You are a genius. I have to go. -- John Green
It's only forever...
Not long at all. -- John Green
The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real. -- John Green
How about I call you when I finish this?"
"But you don't even have my phone number," he said.
"I strongly suspect you write it in the book. -- John Green
I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled -- John Green
He could just never see anything coming. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him inevitable yet invisible -- John Green
I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I wanted it to be just me and just him. -- John Green
When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books. -- John Green
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle. -- John Green
As the staggered lines rushed past him, the space between what we predict and what will happen. And in that space, Colin thought, there was room enough to reinvent himself. -- John Green
My mom and dad came into my room, and even though it was really not big enough for all three of us, they lay on either side of the bed with me and we all watched ANTM on the little TV in my room. -- John Green
I saw Gus's mom pacing in the waiting room, talking -- John Green
And Private Jasper Jacks awake in a dark, empty room approximately twelve feet square. -- John Green
What happens in the band room stays in the band room. -- John Green
I'm not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore. -- John Green
goofy, real smile. "I'm a big believer in -- John Green
I leaned in toward her, suddenly overwhelmed with the feeling that we must kiss. -- John Green
The minister said, "Let us pray," but as everyone else bowed their head, I could only stare slack-jawed at the sight of Peter Van Houten. After a moment, he whispered, "We gotta fake pray," and bowed his head. -- John Green
Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy. -- John Green
Hazel Grace," he said.
"Hi," I said. "How are you?"
"Grand," he said. "I have been wanting to call you on a nearly minutely basis, but I have been waiting until I could form a coherent thought in re An Imperial Affliction."
(He said "in re." He really did. That boy.) -- John Green
She was too small and the space covered by maps too big. -- John Green
It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again. That is probably true -- John Green
Without pain, How can we know joy? -- John Green
She liked you.. You thought she was quietly discussing precalc, when she was clearly talking about having hot sex with you. Which is why you need me. -- John Green
I would give up all the sick days I had left for a few healthy ones. -- John Green
Why would you like someone who can't like you back? -- John Green
He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it. -- John Green
Margo herself was - at least part of the time - very unMargo -- John Green
Dad had a sign of his own. MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, it read, and then underneath that (AND GUS). -- John Green
Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime ... -- John Green
Because you're my friend, wingnut. -- John Green
Anyway," Alaska said to me. "I thought the way he treated you was just awful. I wanted to cry. I just wanted to kiss you and make it better. -- John Green
Also, I feel that crying is almost
like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever
totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1.Don't care too much. 2. Shut up. Everything unfortunate that has ever happened to me has stemmed from failure to follow one of the rules. -- John Green
It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting. -- John Green
So, yeah, I go into a porn shop looking for Isaac and I get another Will Grayson instead. God, you're one nasty fucker. -- John Green
How you love your heroes when you are young and safe and the world has not ended. -- John Green
Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always -- John Green
She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her. -- John Green
I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well - but never quite perfectly, you know? -- John Green
It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in. -- John Green
Best day of my life hasn't happened yet. But I knot it. I see it everyday. -- John Green
the Eureka moment felt like a thousand orgasms all at once, except not as messy. -- John Green
When you leave a place, it's best to leave. -- John Green
Okay, please draw a circle." I did. "Now draw a smaller circle within that circle." I did. "The larger circle is virgins. The smaller circle is seventeen-year-old guys with one leg. -- John Green
And he couldn't know because he hadn't been left with an unkeepable promise, because he wasn't me. -- John Green
We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time -- John Green
What's that?"
"The laundry basket?"
"No, next to it."
"I don't see anything next to it."
"It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small. -- John Green
A Paper Town is a town that's got a paper mill on it. -- John Green
ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND. 1863-1914. LLIE LIGHTLY UPON HIM EARTH, THO' HE / LAID MANY A HEAVY BURDEN UPON THEE. -- John Green
Our infinity is bigger than other infinities. -- John Green
You know how I know you're a fighter? You called a ten a nine. -- John Green
Indiana,' he said. 'They steal the land from the Indians and leave the name, yes? -- John Green
Gary, hit me as hard as you can in the face when I'm showing my ID, and then, Grayson, you just walk behind me like you belong in the joint, -- John Green
And I love her. And she promised. She promised me always. -- John Green
Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous, ... It is though. -- John Green
This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again. -- John Green
I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to see his parents sink to their knees in the dew-wet grass and moan in pain ... -- John Green
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. -- John Green
I fall in love in the way you fall asleep, slowly, but then all at once -- John Green
Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy ... well. -- John Green
Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't. -- John Green
You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them. -- John Green
The oldest pictures were faded and yellowing, and Colin thought about how even in pictures of their youth, old people look old. -- John Green
Do you think he's, like, embarrassed of me?"
Ben laughed. "What? No," he said.
"Technically," I added, "you should be embarrassed of him."
She rolled her eyes, smiling. A girl accustomed to compliments. -- John Green
I wish I could say I was in it for the thrill of learning, but mostly I was in it for the thrill of getting into a worthwhile college. -- John Green
the brains of your generation. -- John Green
Your book has a way of telling me what I'm feeling before I even feel it -- John Green
Whether you're studying electrical engineering or poetry, college is not about maximizing income, it's about becoming a better and more informed observer of the universe. And for me, at least, that what's leads to a more fulfilling life. -- John Green
You can learn a lot about government from donkey balls. -- John Green
Alaska pulling the controller up and to the right, as if that would help her escape certain death. I had the same bad habit. -- John Green
Did I help you to a fate you didn't want? -- John Green
No, I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator. -- John Green
But her shoulder was against my arm, and the backs of our hands were touching, and although I was not looking at Margo, pressing myself against the glass felt almost like pressing myself against her. -- John Green
What are you assholes looking at?" "Nothing," said Radar. "We're certainly not looking at your eyebrows. -- John Green
You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to lover her. -- John Green
A monochrome Jackson Pollock," Jane says, and then tells Tiny, "We gotta bolt. This band is like a root canal sans painkiller". -- John Green
...in freedom, most people find sin. -- John Green
memories fall apart too. -- John Green
I always had this secret suspicion that I was special. -- John Green
You know what's not boring? Food, delicious food! -- John Green
Don't you know who you love, Pudge? You love the girl who makes you laugh and shows you porn and drinks wine with you. You don't love the crazy, sullen bitch. -- John Green
I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation. -- John Green
He'll eat you alive, shit you out and then piss on his dump. -- John Green
History doesn't have a curfew. -- John Green
be with him was to hurt him - inevitably. -- John Green
which was caused by my lungs swimming in fluid, a liter and a half (!!!!) -- John Green
Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that. -- John Green
Reading forces you to be quiet in a place that no longer makes place for that. -- John Green
Throughout the book, she refers to herself as "the side effect," which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible. -- John Green
You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation. -- John Green
Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both. -- John Green
I just want to stay away from people and read books. -- John Green
As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative. -- John Green
Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate. -- John Green
Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer. -- John Green
When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist. -- John Green
Some people have lives; some people have music. -- John Green
We are taught that the hero's journey is the journey from weakness to strength. But I am here today to tell you that those stories are wrong. The real hero's journey is the journey from strength to weakness. -- John Green
For me, the hero's journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero's journey is the voyage from strength to weakness. -- John Green
This is it. I can't even not smoke anymore -- John Green
Once I'd recovered, we went inside and sat down on the couch right next to each other, -- John Green
He'd pissed the bed. It was awful. I couldn't even look, really. I just shouted for his parents and they came down, and I went upstairs while they cleaned him up. When -- John Green
Your Friendship with ms Sleeps with The fishes -- John Green
I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.) -- John Green
You're Facebook friends with Tiny?" "Yes. He request-friended me," Mom says, epically failing to speak Facebook. -- John Green
Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you. -- John Green
Keep your shit together, I whispered to my lungs. -- John Green
What matters to you defines your mattering. -- John Green
That's why, his mom said, they made fun of him in the first place. "They're just jealous," she said. But Colin knew better. They weren't jealous. He just wasn't likeable. Sometimes it's that simple. -- John Green
Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of the stars to cross ... -- John Green
The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't. -- John Green
yourself lucky." He smiled. I grabbed some clean -- John Green
Well dress me up in a tutu, put my on a unicycle, and call me Caroline the Dancing Bear. You're a fugging dumper -- John Green
The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes. -- John Green
Should I, like, bite? -- John Green
This was typical of my parents: in their minds, no one was just an asshole. There was always something wrong with people other than just sucking: they had socialization disorders, or borderline personality syndrome, or whatever. -- John Green
Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat. -- John Green
Augustus: "I can still dominate your blind ass at Counterinsurgence,"
Isaac: "I'm pretty sure all asses are blind, -- John Green
As he read, I fell in love the way you fell asleep: slowly, then all at once. -- John Green
I feel my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all these small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. -- John Green
Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets. -- John Green
Ma'am," Augustus said, nodding toward her, "Your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police. -- John Green
We have bottled the stars this evening, my young friends. -- John Green
I kept thinking that it sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine. I was thinking about that as I sank into sleep. -- John Green
She was nothing but good and I was nothing but bad, but then she died, and I didn't. -- John Green
I felt shy looking at him. I could not match the intensity of his waterblue eyes. -- John Green
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire! Hell is in your future if you give in to desire! -- John Green
Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget. -- John Green
Brainy. Definitely the new Sexy. -- John Green
You can't just make me different, and the leave. Because I was fine before. -- John Green
You can't just change me and then leave. You can't. -- John Green
Yours most sincerely,
Peter Van Houten
c/o Lidewij Vliegnthart
"WHAT?!" I shouted aloud. "WHAT IS THIS LIFE? -- John Green
Whats the point of being alive, if you dont at least try to do something reliable -- John Green
I love it when you talk medical to me. -- John Green
I've been smart longer. -- John Green
If we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. -- John Green
Hitler is the rare individual who really did make history - specifically he made it worse. -- John Green
I love driving fast under streetlights. -- John Green
The thing about getting dumped generally, and getting dumped by Katherines in particular, was how utterly monotonous it was. -- John Green
We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.' -- John Green
You shall love your neighbour
With your crooked heart,
It says so much about love and brokenness
it's perfect. -- John Green
What the hell is in swan saliva that burns so badly? -- John Green
But I could always tell in her eyes if she got really pissed at me, and her eyes were still pretty smiley -- John Green
So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind. -- John Green
How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world? -- John Green
This star won't go out. And it won't. we won't let it. -- John Green
I love you like crazycakes. -- John Green
I promise you that it will be okay," the Duke said, her voice measured, quiet.
"You're good at that," I said. "At, like, saying crazy things in a way that makes me believe them. -- John Green
Like Rabe'a, I didn't think people should believe in God because of heaven and hell. But I didn't feel a need to run around with a torch. You can't burn down a made-up place. -- John Green
A woman so strong she burns heaven and drenches hell. Alaska would have liked this Rabe'a woman. -- John Green
Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps. -- John Green
He missed that, too, and it hadn't even happened. -- John Green
Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone. -- John Green
I got up and hugged first his dad and then his mom, who held on to me too tight, like Gus used to, squeezing my shoulder blades. -- John Green
You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean.
"I'll look it up."
No. With Me. At my house. Now -- John Green
No, its not, because you can see into the future if you have basic understanding of how people are likely to act. -- John Green
I love it when you talk medical to me. - Augustus Waters -- John Green
I love it when you talk medical to me," he said -- John Green
My thoughts are stars I cannot fanthom into constellations. -- John Green
My thoughts are stars I can't fanthom into constellations. -- John Green
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations. -- John Green
My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations. -- John Green
People always get used to beauty though. -- John Green
Long week. Long month. Long life. -- John Green
Dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions. -- John Green
Christmas is a state of mind. -- John Green
God bless mood equalizers. and all moods are created equal. i am the fucking civil rights movement of moods -- John Green
That was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened - the stories on my mind weren't that funny. -- John Green
God, to go back to when my biggest fear was a hallway. -- John Green
I felt kind of sick for some reason, -- John Green
Rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, -- John Green
It all seemed so trivial,so embarassing.It all seemed like paper kids having their paper fun. -- John Green
Chip, she's gone," and he said, "I thought I'd feel her looking down on us, but you're right. She's just gone -- John Green
I don't have a favourite book, I have hundreds. -- John Green
Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe wants something important to happen to him, even if the important thing is horrible. -- John Green
It would be an honour to have my heart broken by you, Hazel Grace. -- John Green
I'm a grenade, one day I'm going to explode a destroy everything in my past. -- John Green
I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved. -- John Green
They took off running like a couple of spastic marathoners. -- John Green
The contraption was necessary because my lungs sucked at being lungs. -- John Green
Ignorance is a bliss -- John Green
It would be privilege to have heart broken by you. -- John Green
In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our obsession with sexual purity is such that once you are no longer this THING, you are indescribable. -- John Green
She will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and everyone but herself and her mom in those last moments she spent as a person. -- John Green
The day passed as it always did - in slow motion, with a thousand plaintive glances at the clock. But now it was even more unbearable, because every minute I wasted in school was another minute in which I failed to find her. -- John Green
Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency. -- John Green
...you take your humor where you can get it. -- John Green
Like most cancer survivors, lived with uncertainty. -- John Green
You get all these friends just when you don't need friends anymore. -- John Green
I'm not embarrassed by my faith, and I'm also not embarrassed by my doubt. -- John Green
The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. -- John Green
It always seemed so ridiculous that want to be around someone because they're pretty.Is like basing your breakfast cereal on color instead of taste. -- John Green
And then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him and out, the scent fading even as I lay there, my chest burning until I couldn't distinguish among the pains. -- John Green
The longer I do my job," he said, "the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel." "That is really lovely," my -- John Green
Given the entertainment bacchanalia at the disposal of young men and women of your generation, I am grateful to anyone anywhere who sets aside the hours necessary to read my little book. -- John Green
The farther the curve strays from the x-axis, the farther the relationship is from breakup. -- John Green
Night falls fast. Today is the past. -- John Green
But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?"
I nodded into his shirt.
"Gives you an idea how I feel about you," he said.
My old man. He always knew just what to say. -- John Green
Maybe that works for Tiny, but it never works for me. Shutting up works. Following the rules works. So I shut up, and I don't care, and I keep walking, and soon it's over. -- John Green
I did not aspire to become the world's only virgin with pubic lice. -- John Green
A woman needs a strong man to take care of her like a fish needs a bicycle. -- John Green
She never liked me much, but she sure loved me -- John Green
no one can catch the mother-effing fox -- John Green
I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable."
Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice. -- John Green
The marks human leave are too often scars -- John Green
Facts, even false ones, cannot be copyrighted. -- John Green
Dad: "You're a survivor yourself, then?" Augustus: "I am. I didn't cut this fella off for the sheer unadulterated pleasure of it, although it is an excellent weight-loss strategy. Legs are heavy!" Dad: -- John Green
His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn't even know that guys could turn me on-not, like, in real life -- John Green
But I want to show Hazel Grace the basement," Augustus said. "Just Hazel," I said. "So show Just Hazel the basement," said his dad. -- John Green
It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined. -- John Green
The consequences of being un-cool feel so big that a lot of times you end of not finding ways to have open and honest conversations. -- John Green
It's Keun. He wants to be put on speaker. He's being weird."
"Fancy that," said the Duke. "Next you'll tell me that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas. -- John Green
So Friday? Do you have plans for Friday? And then I laughed, because the Colonel and I didn't have plans for this Friday, or for any other Friday for the rest of our lives. -- John Green
there's nothing there -- John Green
Sometimes the way you think about someone isn't the way they actually are. -- John Green
They were cowards, too. Everyone is. -- John Green
How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? -- John Green
Said the pot to the kettle, -- John Green
You smoke to enjoy it, I smoke to die. -- John Green
Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are? -- John Green
I know that oblivion is inevitable, and the sun will swallow the earth and I am in love with you Hazel grace. -- John Green
In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don't suck with people who don't suck. -- John Green
Imagine others complexly. -- John Green
The beautiful couple is beautiful. -- John Green
I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. -- John Green
That i didn't just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? -- John Green
In the end, we both lost. So it goes. -- John Green
The thing with pain, is that it is demand to be felt. -- John Green
Like, what if the people around you had been different?" "How can you separate those things, though? The people are the place is the people. And anyway, I didn't think there was anybody else to be friends with. I thought everyone was either scared, like you, or oblivious, like Lacey. And th - -- John Green
You deserve a life. -- John Green
Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away -- John Green
Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something.
Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book.
OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?! -- John Green
The world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world -- John Green
Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me. -- John Green
I want to leave a mark. -- John Green
We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are we going to live in a universe where important questions will always go unanswered? -- John Green
I was thinking about this girl you love so much," she said, "And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it. -- John Green
I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed to learn it: How. Why. When. Where. What. -- John Green
I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life. -- John Green
I guess I had a hamartia after all. -- John Green
I can't answer the door with Sharpie on my face! -- John Green
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting. -- John Green
And sure, it was three on one. But what a one. -- John Green
Not that I don't trust you, of course, but I don't trust you. -- John Green
Because they did not know that we'd loaded the bullets and put the gun in her hand, -- John Green
She turns to me, and I shouldn't cry but I do, not because it hurts, but because I am scared, and Iraised my hands, and Ben saved us, and now there is this girl looking at me, and she looks at me kindof the way a mom does, and that shouldn't crack me open, but it does. -- John Green
She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale.
"DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted.
Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts."
"That's not any better! -- John Green
God, I understand whale anatomy. Can we move on now, Herman? -- John Green
The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder. -- John Green
Let's just do the thing where we go and see whatever starts next. -- John Green
But I'm not pretty, not up close anyway. Generally, the closer people get to me the less hot they find me. -- John Green
I assume that, as usual, he is asking this question rhetorically, so I say nothing so he'll go on ranting, because as painful as it is for me to admit, there is something kind of wonderful about Tiny's ranting, particularly on a quiet street when I am still half asleep. -- John Green
People wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't imagine themselves not existing. -- John Green
You gave me a forever within numbered days. -- John Green
You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.. -- John Green
For so long, I hadn't really heard Margo - I'd seen her screaming and thought her laughing - that now I figured it was my job. To try, even at this great remove, to hear the opera of her. -- John Green
Ben's tongue is like sunscreen ... It's good for your health and should be applied liberally. -- John Green
That tastes like hope feels. -- John Green
Whatever, bro. We both had a long day. Too much drama. I'll TTYS. I wanted to ridicule him for using chatspeak IRL, but I found myself lacking the energy. -- John Green
We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus ... -- John Green
No one is dead as long as someone is still alive -- John Green
I was thinking about your mattering business. I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. -- John Green
Have to do eleven things tonight, -- John Green
The afternoon light brightening the green in her eyes, her tan skin the last memory of fall -- John Green
You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is. -- John Green
The marks that humans leave, are too often scars. -- John Green
The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. -- John Green
...with this swing set your child will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely and may also learn the most important lesson of all:No matter how hard you kick,no matter how high you get , you can't get all the way around -- John Green
I hate that. I hate kids like that so fugging much. -- John Green
It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you. -augustus waters -- John Green
At some point, I realized I was Kaitlyning the encounter, so I decided to text Kaitlyn and ask for some advice. -- John Green
Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster. -- John Green
I felt the worry start to snatch at my breath when I finished talking. -- John Green
It was the night before Christmas. -- John Green
YOU are valuable and rare and worthy of love. -- John Green
I didn't need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back. -- John Green
It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes
-Miles Pudge -- John Green
It was 2:49 in the morning. I had never, in my entire life, felt less tired. -- John Green
WGrayson7: yeah. what are you doing up at 1:33:48?
willupleasebequiet: waiting to see if 1:33:49 is any better. you? -- John Green
Who would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you? -- John Green
Why are you acting like such a brat? -- John Green
He looks at me like I've just said something absolutely idiotic, which of course I have. Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know? -- John Green
You're missing a whole demographic of Katherines by not chasing the over-eighty market. -- John Green
Relief is a Dumper emotion. -- John Green
Sorry, I was awash in the nobility of sacrifice. What were you saying? -- John Green
Kafir, you have a very complicated problem with a very simple solution. -- John Green
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind. -- John Green
Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense. -- John Green
Like, I'm lazy, but I'm also good at not-doing things I'm not supposed to do ... Being funny is a way of not-doing. Sit around and make jokes and be Mr. Funny pants and just make fun of everyone else's attempts to do something. -- John Green
Just spend a few more months playing video games. That hand-eye coordination will come in handy when you get to third base. -- John Green
Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus ... -- John Green
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller. -- John Green
Augustus Waters drove horrifically. Whether stopping or starting, everything happened with a tremendous JOLT. I flew against the seat belt of his Toyota SUV -- John Green
What's the total area, in square miles, of the state of Kansas?" he whispered. "Um, around 82,200; why? -- John Green
By saying you don't care if the world falls apart, in some small way you're saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms. -- John Green
But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness -- John Green
But there's so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. -- John Green
The iepen throw confetti to greet the spring. -- John Green
Touche, mon ami. Too fugging shay. -- John Green
I will have that, Colin thought. I will have it. I will. With Katherine. But I won't be only that, he resolved. I will leave behind something more that one photo album where I always look old. -- John Green
I want to tell her that's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through all the silent parts. -- John Green
The correct answer is that we are all feeling like we will be happier after an a cappella rendition of Blister in the Sun. -- John Green
For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true. -- John Green
[ ... ]so I just sat there surrounded by Dutchness, feeling awkward and hopeful. -- John Green
Young. Goofy. Infinite. -- John Green
So much depends upon the transparent G-tube erupting from the gut of the blue-lipped boy. So much depends upon this observer of the universe" ... "And you say you don't write poetry. -- John Green
I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them. -- John Green
Authors do not own books, readers do -- John Green
The prank is entitled "Subverting the Patriarchal Paradigm". -- John Green
Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral, at Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of him, finally stopped his heart, which was also made of him. -- John Green
I just think if you don't say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I- -- John Green
I have an Augustus Waters fetish. -- John Green
COOSA LIQUORS: WE CATER TO YOUR SPIRITUAL NEEDS. -- John Green
He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. -- John Green
Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center. -- John Green
The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling. -- John Green
That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without. -- John Green
A desert blessing, an ocean curse. -- John Green
The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light. -- John Green
Daddy is trying really fugging hard to think of a not-terrifying reason why you'd wake Daddy up in the middle of the night to ask that fugging question. But no. No. Daddy does not have a match or a lighter. -- John Green
You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting. -- John Green
Pains demand to be felt. -- John Green
Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people. -- John Green
So I know she forgives me, just as I forgive her. Thomas Edison's last words were: 'It very beautiful over there.' I do not know where there is, bit I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it is beautiful. -- John Green
His every syllable flirted. -- John Green
Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds out that I did hear. She said, "I won't be a mom anymore." It gutted me pretty badly. -- John Green
He only felt upset about the breakup because that's what you're supposed to feel. -- John Green
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; / But you shall shine more bright in these contents / Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. -- John Green
I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you. -- John Green
We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. -- John Green
Someone should tell Jesus," I said. "I mean, it's gotta be dangerous, storing children with cancer in your heart. -- John Green
All at once, I couldn't figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing. -- John Green
Then I am a cancer-fighting machine," I told him. "That you are, Hazel. -- John Green
A paper town for a paper girl," she says. -- John Green
As a novelist, I really believe in the power of the precisely chosen word, so all I can say about this news is SHMERGHABERG. -- John Green
We never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think think that we are invincible because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestation. -- John Green
There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea. -- John Green
When I got here, I did get bored ... I got more and more nervous here too, not knowing anybody. And I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did. It's the one thing I can't do. -- John Green
You used to call me Augustus. -- John Green
How can our sentient fucking lives revolve around something slugs can do. I mean, who you want to screw and whether you screw them? -- John Green
Maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering -- John Green
One of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering. -- John Green
This is all so CHILDISH PATHETIC. YOU'RE EMBARASSING. GET OVER IT GET OVER IT GET OVER IT. But he did not quite know what "it" was. -- John Green
As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist. -- John Green
It looked nothing like America. It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead. -- John Green
That's the thing about history: YOU make it. -- John Green
We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love. -- John Green
COLUMBUS BROUGHT SMALLPOX TO THE NATIVES; WE SHALL RECALL THE OCCASION WITH A PICNIC! -- John Green
I owe a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay and also I owed a debt to everyone who didn't get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn't got to be a person yet -- John Green
This is the Homosexuality Is An Abomination Club, right? -- John Green
He responded a few minutes later.
Okay.
I wrote back.
Okay.
He responded:
Oh, my God, stop flirting with me! -- John Green
Tiny decides to ignore me, and he tells Jane that he hopes one day to have enough texts from Will Grayson to turn them into a book, because his texts are like poetry.
Before I can stop myself, I say, "'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' becomes 'u r hawt like august. -- John Green
I can't believe I have a crush on a girl with such cliche wishes. -- John Green
There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water -- John Green
You can't know what an experience will mean to future-you until you are future-you. You need millions of seconds of perspective, which ultimately, only time can buy. -- John Green
Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums ... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid, no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories. -- John Green
Can't dig very deep before hitting water in most of Orlando. -- John Green
But why Alaska?' I asked her.
'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut word, Alyeska. It means 'that which the sea breaks against,' and I love that. But at the time, I just saw Alaska up there. And it was big, just like I wanted to be. -- John Green
So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry. -- John Green
Never again feel natural to talk to her. Any attempts to feign normal -- John Green
We all romanticize the people we adore. -- John Green
My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy. -- John Green
The senses must feast while there is yet hunger and whatever. -- John Green
I expertly angled my raison bran to accomodate the g-forces. -- John Green
Even though we fought, like, ninety-four percent of the time, I'm really sad. -- John Green
You gave me Forever with the numbered days, and I am grateful -- John Green
You gave me a forever within the limited days, and I'm grateful. -- John Green
Admittedly, I am only seventeen now. But some years are longer than others. -- John Green
Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath. -- John Green
I do, Augustus. I do. -- John Green
And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers. -- John Green
Sometimes, the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are. People are different when you can smell them and see them up close. - Ben Starling -- John Green
We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either. -- John Green
You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me. -- John Green
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. -- John Green
Without pain, how we could know joy. -- John Green
We Hoosiers are excessively optimistic about summer. -- John Green
Humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel. - Daddy Jacobsen -- John Green
Looks like Madison Estates isn't going to get built; my husband and I bought property there, but someone called this week to say they're refunding us our deposit because they didn't presell enough houses to finance the project. Another paper town for KS!- Marge in Cawker, KS -- John Green
Gus sat there, pumping his fist, waiting for the medicine to work, the medicine that did not kill the pain so much as distance him from it -- John Green
And then Margo proceeded to lie. "He's actually my cousin," she said. Then she sidled up to me, out her hand aroud my waste so that I could feel each of her fingers taut against my hip bone, and she added, "And my lover. -- John Green
The hour proceeded apace: Fights were recounted, battles won amid wars sure to be lost; -- John Green
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. -- John Green
But then again (and this is one of my main complaints about the human consciousness): once you think a thought it is extremely difficult to unthank it. -- John Green
They don't plant in rows because they're idiots,and they don't use farm equipment because they're idiots,and they don't plant in spring because they're idiots.. -- John Green
The spring air just on the cold side of perfect, the late-afternoon light heavenly in its hurtfulness. -- John Green
As I took those two steps back, Margo took two equally small and quiet steps forward. -- John Green
I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for. -- John Green
Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness. -- John Green
He really was beautiful. I know boys aren't supposed to be, but he was. -- John Green
Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this."
"Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish."
"God, you're the best," I told him.
"I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel," he answered. -- John Green
the point is that there are always answers. -- John Green
I love you present tense. It's okay, Gus. It's okay. It is. It's okay, you hear me? Okay, okay. -- John Green
But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town. -- John Green
I figured something out. The future is unpredictable. -- John Green
Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts. -- John Green
I wanted to like booze more than I actually did (which is more or less the precise opposite of how I felt about Alaska) -- John Green
Holding anger is a poison.
Never regret something that made you smile.
Do not do unto others what you do not want others to do unto you. -- John Green
Ask me if I give a shit. -- John Green
New wars started even before the old ones were won. -- John Green
I'm so pissed at her. For ... for, I don't know. Not being the Margo I had expected her to be. -- John Green
The humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show them how we feel. -- John Green
Mia,' she whispered. I turned around. 'What?' I whispered back.
She smiled at me a little. 'LEEERRROOOY JEEENNKKIINNNSS!' she shouted, then spun around and ran toward the Z's in the lighting section. -- John Green
We drank from paper Winnie-the-Pooh cups -- John Green
But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar. A -- John Green
The thing about That Guy Is a Gigolo,' Radar says, 'I mean, the thing about it as a game, is that in the end it reveals a lot more about the person doing the imagining than it does about the person being imagined. -- John Green
I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should. -- John Green
You've gotta pick your battles in this world... -- John Green
Love is tied to truth. -- John Green
It's a paper town. -- John Green
you have to get lost before you find yourself. -- John Green
I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies. -- John Green
The punch connected, but (1) Colin forgot to close his fist, so he was slapping not hitting, and (2) instead of slapping TOC, he ended up slapping Hassan flush across the cheek, whereupon Hassan finally succeeded in falling down. -- John Green
Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy? -- John Green
Anyway, my dad didn't go to college, and he's rich as balls. Colin wondered just how rich balls were, -- John Green
and collarbone that Augustus had seen. It wasn't obscene -- John Green
I opened the door. He looked down at my shirt and smiled. "Funny," he said.
"Don't call my boobs funny," I answered. -- John Green
Right. I'd forgotten about her.' He shook his head. 'That keeps happening. -- John Green
You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus. -- John Green
I want to see you again tonight, but I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow - Augustus Waters -- John Green
Read a lot. Read broadly ... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored ... Write a lot. -- John Green
No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way round. -- John Green
The only one I'd like to talk about Augustus Waters' death is Augustus Waters. -- John Green
We are now as I wish we could be then. -- John Green
Let's try to remember that the world isn't just, because only then will we have the power to change it. -- John Green
The Support Group, of course, was depressing as hell. -- John Green
Also I'm sorry I hurled earlier. I was hurling because I actually got awesome-poisoning from being around so many awesome people. -- John Green
... yearn for halcyon days of yore". -- John Green
Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that. It's disheartening. -- John Green
But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can be is me. -- John Green
Maybe this time she wanted to be found, and to be found by me. -- John Green
Chicken nuggets is like family -- John Green
She used to love me,yeah
But now she hates
She used to screw me, bro
Other guys
Other guys -- John Green
I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love -- John Green
Praise God for good nurses. -- John Green
And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart. -- John Green
We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it down because it threatens the overall quality and breadth of American literature. -- John Green
It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating. -- John Green
That's part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence -- John Green
I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in. -- John Green
People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm. -- John Green
I think God is such a good idea that if God didn't exist, we'd have to invent God. -- John Green
We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are. -- John Green
I wanted to hate Jake, of course, but as I watched them together, smiling and fumbling all over each other, I didn't hate him. I wanted to be him, sure, but I tried to remember I was ostensibly on a date with someone else. -- John Green
Nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. -- John Green
We age slower when we move quickly versus standing still. -- John Green
Even though I hated the sympathy people felt toward me, I couldn't help but feel it toward him. -- John Green
And he was pretentious: -- John Green
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head. -- John Green
You can never know what you look like, right? Whenever you see yourself in the mirror, you know you're looking at you, so you can't help but pose a little. So you never really know. -- John Green
I hated being careful, too - or wanted to, at least. -- John Green
I wondered why no one had shown the common courtesy to tell me to put on shoes, and why was I out there in my underwear, chicken legs exposed to the world? -- John Green
Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because - like all real love stories - it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me. -- John Green
She was much more like a person than other girls were. -- John Green
I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural. -- John Green
I give people credit for buying into consumerism -- John Green
Everything that comes together falls apart. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you stopped suffering when they did. -- John Green
Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors intend. The job of reading is to see into other people as we see ourselves. -- John Green
The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that's why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood. -- John Green
You smoke to have fun. I smoke to die. -- John Green
The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it. -- John Green
The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name. -- John Green
As far as getting shy around guys goes it's important to remember that they are people in exactly the same way the girls are people. -- John Green
In her nervous system and she can't get up and her face is like an inch from the football-field -- John Green
I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to. -- John Green
For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way. -- John Green
... God, it's over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people's problems and get some of your own. -- John Green
The fact that Augustus made me feel special did not necessarily indicate that I was special. -- John Green
You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together. -- John Green
It's stupid, but I kept thinking I owed it to her
to Anne Frank, I mean
because she was dead and I wasn't, because she had stayed quiet and kept the blind drawn and done everything right and still died ... -- John Green
The trees seemed to clothe the hill, -- John Green
It's funny what people will do to be remembered. -- John Green
I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met. -- John Green
stuck in their belly like Jonah. -- John Green
I am pretty unextraordinary. -- John Green
Being gay is not an excuse for being a dick. -- John Green
The not knowing would not keep me from caring. -- John Green
I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. -- John Green
Each time he opened his eyes, beams of feverish, demonic pain shot through his brain. -- John Green
Nothing really good will ever happen to me if I stay in Gutshot; and maybe that's true. But nothing really bad will ever happen, either, and I'll take that bargain any day. -- John Green
She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every endeavor. -- John Green
Augustus smiled. 'Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existance. -- John Green
We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them. -- John Green
I'm nothing. the thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where is nothing is real. -- John Green
The champagne had been donated by one of Gus's doctors - Gus being the kind of person who inspires doctors to give their best bottles of champagne to children. -- John Green
And I wrote my way out of the labyrinth. -- John Green
she loved mysteries so much she became one -- John Green
Gus really loved you, you know," he said. "I know." "He wouldn't shut up about it." "I know," I said. "It was annoying." "I didn't find it that annoying," I said. -- John Green
One of the job requirements of Professional Sick Person is sleeping a lot, -- John Green
She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn. -- John Green
So I wasn't lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths. -- John Green
When yu say nasty things about people, you shouldnever say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honest take those back... -- John Green
The times that were the most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly, totally gone she was. -- John Green
The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was. -- John Green
Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books. -- John Green
Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die. -- John Green
One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green
If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich. -- John Green
You don't want romantic advice from me, you want romantic advice from Edward Cullen. I completely understand but he is completely unavailable right now and I'll tell you why. He doesn't exist. -- John Green
Forever is an incorrect concept. -- John Green
The world may be broken but hope is not crazy. -- John Green
Some infinities are simply bigger than other infinities. -- John Green
You can never love people as much as you miss them. -- John Green
Omnis cellula e cellula," he said again. "All cells come from cells. Every cell is born of a previous cell, which was born of a previous cell. Life comes from life. Life begets life begets life begets life begets life. -- John Green
Don't swear in the Literal Heart of Jesus. -- John Green
I couldn't hear a thing in the world but you. And it was so cold then, and so silent, and I loved you so much. Now it's hot and dead quiet again, and I love you still. -- John Green
That while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world. -- John Green
If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen. -- John Green
Our fearless shall be our secret weapon -- John Green
So much depends upon this observer of the universe -- John Green
I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I don't think it's oh so hard to walk four miles in the snow. I want that. I love that. -- John Green
It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn't the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things. -- John Green
The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people. -- John Green
Everything is a side-effect of dying. -- John Green
There's a plane to everywhere leaving shortly -- John Green
Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled. -- John Green
There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough. -- John Green
How will I ever get out of this labyrinth! to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast. -- John Green
But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying? -- John Green
Our children are weird. Nicely phrased. -- John Green
You don't get to have an opinion on whether .999 ... is equal to 1, for instance. It is equal to 1. People smarter than us have worked hard to figure this stuff out, and we owe it to them and to the universe to respect what they've figured out. -- John Green
The author would like to acknowledge: That disease and its treatment are -- John Green
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
'Cock-a-doodle-don't, motherfugger,' Colin mumbled. But the rooster cock-a-doodle-did. -- John Green
The only solution was to try to unmake the world, to make it black and silent and uninhabited again, to return to the moment before the Big Bang, in the beginning when there was the Word, and to live in that vacuous uncreated space alone with the Word. -- John Green
ConConsciousness makes for poor windows. -- John Green
Bluie, the blue stuffed bear I'd had since I was, like, one - back when it was socially acceptable to name one's friends after their hue. -- John Green
Great books help you understand, and they help you to feel understood. -- John Green
A sequel that will exist just for us -- John Green
... but it is the nature of stars to cross -- John Green
I really like umbrellas. It's like, I have a roof! I carry it with me! Umbrellas always amuse me. -- John Green
she treads lightly old man. -- John Green
Forever is composed of nows. - Emily Dickinson -- John Green
I kind of think that everyone who disagrees with me is wrong. -- John Green
We think that we are invincible because we are. -- John Green
I didn't even know what the feeling was, really, just that there was a lot of it. -- John Green
I'm telling you, Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interrupt you at his own funeral. -- John Green
You never know. It's just. It's like. POOF. And you're gone. -- John Green
See, popularity is complicated. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about liking; you have to really like being liked, and also sort like being disliked. -- John Green
Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska? -- John Green
That always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast based on the color instead of the taste. -- John Green
One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response to it. You can see people respond to your work visually or musically or with writing. -- John Green
In this world, Colin figured, you're best off staying with your kind. -- John Green
People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved and people are being used. -- John Green
I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. -- John Green
never makes me talk to him. I don't know -- John Green
Hands on her shoulders, I noted. Fast, but not too fast or it's going to be over, fast. Keep your grunting to a minimum. -- John Green
An eye for an eye leaves the whole world monocular. -- John Green
He presses his forehead down on the podium and I watched his shoulders shake, and then finally, he said, "Goddamn it, Augustus, editing your own eulogy."
"Don't swear in the Literal Heart of Jesus," Gus said. -- John Green
we have something between us, him and me. the the truth? everybody has it. that's our curse and our blessing. that's our trial and our error and our it. -- John Green
Talking to a stranger because it's the only safe kind of talking you can do -- John Green
Okay?
Okay. -- John Green
And for the first time in his life, he smiled thinking about the always-coming infinite future stretching out before him. -- John Green
You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow. -- John Green
But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightning. -- John Green
And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer. -- John Green
It would be a privelidge to have my heart broken by you. -- John Green
She's the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome. -- John Green
Augustus half smiled. Because you're beautiful, I enjoy looking at beaufitul people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence ... I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything. -- John Green
And quickly my mom put her arm around my shoulders and spun me back toward the car, walking quickly, and I was like, "Mom, what's wrong?" And she said, "We can't eavesdrop, Hazel. -- John Green
It was sure a privilege to love him. -- John Green
If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me? -- John Green
Listening is a very rare skill, and in these noisy times, it is more and more valuable. -- John Green
It hurts because it mattered. -- John Green
I'm hungrier than a kid on his third day of fat camp. -- John Green
Get me out of this labyrinth -- John Green
Listening to people howl in misery is not one of my favourite pastimes. -- John Green
Why? Why would you even like me? Haven't you put yourself through enough of this? -- John Green
The fireworks bangbangbanged in sync with my heartbeat. -- John Green
It was nice - in the dark and the quiet ... and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing. -- John Green
I think forever is an incorrect concept," I answered.
He smirked. "You're an incorrect concept."
"I know. That's why I'm being taken out of the rotation". -- John Green
The marks humans leave are to often scars -- John Green
A vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks butts of children. -- John Green
You didn't sleep?"
"No! The dreams are terrible. In my dreams, she doesn't even look like herself anymore. I don't even remember what she looked like. -- John Green
Whatever you're worried about, you're bigger than the worries. -- John Green
I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books. -- John Green
Knock knock." "Who's there?" said Alaska. I looked at her blankly. About a minute later, I got it, and laughed. -- John Green
He was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness. -- John Green
Straight and fast. -- John Green
Your lack of ambition is truly remarkable. -- John Green
I don't care HOW people read, I care IF they read -- John Green
Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard. -- John Green
I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together - but that seemed to cheesy to say, and anyway, she was standing up. -- John Green
Your party kicked so much ass!Even though you suck so much! It's like, instead of blood, your heart pumps liquid suck! But thanks for the beer! -- John Green
I like being liked. Is that crazy? -- John Green
Crying is you, plus tears -- John Green
There's a certain something to the way girls walk - something about the way their legs connect to their hips. -- John Green
Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. -- John Green
There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer. -- John Green
There is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. -- John Green
I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields. -- John Green
I'm at the eye doctor. I'm always at the eye doctor. It's like this is my profession. I am no longer a writer, I'm now an optomoligical patient. By the way, this job doesn't pay well. -- John Green
As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar. -- John Green
The world contains a lot of dead people. -- John Green
Caroline is no longer sufffering from personhood. -- John Green
He's gone, I thought as everything inside of me collapsed into singularity. -- John Green
Waffles are just awesome bread. -- John Green
She is funny without ever being mean. -- John Green
You have to get lost before you can find yourself. -- John Green
They weren't jealous. He just wasn't likable. Sometimes it's that simple. -- John Green
You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing." "It's a metaphor, -- John Green
The problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering. -- John Green
He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her -- John Green
It's like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to be soul mates. -- John Green
Either way,though, we must remember that this is a dangerous sport.
Right, Colin thought. We have guns and the pigs have snouts. Dangerous, indeed. -- John Green
Maybe scrambled eggs are ghettoized, but they're also special. They have a place and a time, like church does. -- John Green
1.A green-glass beanstalk
2.An abstract represenation of a tree
3.A greener, glassier, uglier Washingtong Movement
4. The Jolly Green Giant's gigantic jolly green phallus. -- John Green
Without pain, there's no pain -- John Green
I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery. -- John Green
Pain demands to be felt. -- John Green
I decided, then, that funerals are for the living -- John Green
Karl Marx famously called religion 'the opiate of the masses.' Buddhism, -- John Green
He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him. -- John Green
Feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when. -- John Green
We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources. -- John Green
He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace ... -- John Green
i wanted more time so we could fall in love. -- John Green
Shh. Shh. This is getting awesome."
-Augustus -- John Green
And so much depends, I told Augustus, upon a blue sky cut open by the branches of the trees above. So much depends upon the transparent G-tube erupting from the gut of the blue-lipped boy. So much depends upon the observer of the universe. -- John Green
I didn't want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus. -- John Green
The Royal Tenenbaums," she said. "It's about a family of prodigies. -- John Green
Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt -- John Green
I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise. -- John Green
A quote says a lot about the author ! -- John Green
You're so busy being you that you have no idea how truly unprecedented you are -- John Green
Well, she's not your daughter,Connie. She hasn't walked all over you like a doormat for a decade. -- John Green
The existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate. #TheFaultInOurStars -- John Green
So we're going to SeaWorld," she told me. "Part Eleven." "What, are we going to Free Willy or something?" "No," she said. "We're just going to go to SeaWorld, that's all. It's the only theme park I haven't broken into yet. -- John Green
I don't know why boys expect us to like boy movies. We don't expect them to like girl movies. -- John Green
I know it's impossible for you to see peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them - the bad kids and the good kids and all kids - as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for. Varying degrees of sick, varying degrees of neurotic, varying degrees of self- actualized. -- John Green
Sometimes I don't get you,' I said.
She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point. -- John Green
The opportunity of studying history, is the opportunity to experience empathy. -- John Green
We had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth -- John Green
I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience. -- John Green
I fell asleep to the highway's monotonous lullaby -- John Green
The worst thing that could happen had finally happened. And there was a kind of relief in it, maybe. -- John Green
Funerals, I had decided, were for the living. -- John Green
No, not officially. But you know what they say about Gunshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because everytime a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves the town. -- John Green
I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion. -- John Green
lord, send me amnesia. -- John Green
That's the think about pain. It demands to be felt. -- John Green
There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars -- John Green
It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine. -- John Green
While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional. -- John Green
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. -- John Green
I've stopped thinking about it. I don't have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind. -- John Green
I finally decide I'm just going to stab him a thousand times with a ballpoint pen. -- John Green
My current option was a Waffle House full of cheerleaders and a guy dressed in Reynolds wrap. -- John Green
Is it so hard to die, Mr. Lewis? Is that labyrinth really worse than this one? -- John Green
Dad always told me that you can judge people by the way they treat waiters and assistants. By this measure, Peter Van Houten was possibly the world's douchiest douche. -- John Green
There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what. -- John Green
I learned that myth doesn't mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting. -- John Green
She's still taking on water. A desert blessing, an ocean curse. -- John Green
triumphantly digitized contemporaneity'? -- John Green
How can you read and talk at the same time?" I asked.
"Well, I usually can't, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging. -- John Green
With every choice, something is gained and something is lost.' - John Green -- John Green
This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories. -- John Green
It's ward to believe in coincidences, but it's even hard to believe in anything else -- John Green
How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all. -- John Green
My shoulder pain had been lack-of-oxygen pain. Heart-working-too-hard pain. -- John Green
Your driving is unpleasant, but it isn't technically unsafe. -- John Green
Torture. I totally get it, like, I get that she died or whatever. -- John Green
Funerals...are for the living. -- John Green
You can light these," I whispered to him. "I won't mind. -- John Green
Romantic behavior was basically monotonous and predictable, and that therefore one could write a fairly straightforward formula that would predict the collision course of any two people. -- John Green
do you think that there's any minute in any day when i'm not aware of how big i am? do you think there's a single minute that goes by when i'm not thinking about how other people see me? -- John Green
The Great Perhaps was upon us and we were invincible. -- John Green
And if the Colonel thought that calling me his friend would make me stand by him, well, he was right. -- John Green
It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh? -- John Green
There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined. I feel like this is an important idea, one of those ideas that your brain must wrap itself around slowly, the way pythons eat ... -- John Green
Books belong to their readers! Own it! Make it yours! -- John Green
Family is forever. -- John Green
THAT'S PRETTY FUCKING BAD",and Tiny shouts back, "I GOT DUMPED BY STATUS UPDATE," and I answer, "YEAH, I NOTICED I MEAN,HE COULD HAVE AT LEAST TEXTED. OR EMAILED. OR SENT A PASSENGER PIGEON. -- John Green
Where did I get it? Smartypants, getting a gun in Gutshot, Tennessee is easier than getting chlamydia from a hooker. -- John Green
I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with. -- John Green
I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z'ed up. -- John Green
It's bad for your brain not to unplug. -- John Green
Okay, he said after forever. Maybe okay will be our always.
Okay, I said. -- John Green
There is no try," I said, "There is only do. -- John Green
You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail. -- John Green
How did you get so grown up that you understand things that confuse your ancient mother? -- John Green
Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you. -- John Green
i lit up like a christmas tree -- John Green
I believe in hope, in what is something called "radical hope." I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that's why I write fiction, probaby. It's my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r -- John Green
I got to seek a great perhaps. -- John Green
And I wanted to know whether it is possible to live a hopeful life in a world riddled with ambiguity, whether we can find a way to go on even when we don't get answers to questions that haunt us -- John Green
Sometimes you need your best friend to walk through the doors. -- John Green
I don't know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving. -- John Green
I said nothing - I hadn't known Marya, and anyway, "listening quietly" was my general social strategy -- John Green
I liked the way his story ended with someone else. -- John Green
If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane. -- John Green
The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it. -- John Green
Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something. -- John Green
The perception of who you are is more important than who you are. You are what other people think of you. -- John Green
Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend. -- John Green
Oh my God I'm going to kill you!' But she was laughing. -- John Green
We didn't have sex. We never got naked. I never touched her bare breast, and her hands never got lower than my hips. It didn't matter. As she slept, I whispered, I love you, Alaska Young. -- John Green
Ya'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die. -- John Green
Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war -- John Green
Illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all." Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside -- John Green
She was loved deeply, but not widely -- John Green
Always will be are forever!!-John Green TFIOS -- John Green
Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food. -- John Green
The venn diagram of boys who don't like smart girls and boys you don't wanna date is a circle. -- John Green
I reread An Imperial Affliction until Mom woke up and rolled over toward me around six. She nuzzled her head against my shoulder, which felt uncomfortable and vaguely Augustinian. -- John Green
Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'. -- John Green
Love is just a shout in the void. -- John Green
After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it. -- John Green
After all this time, it still seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out - but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it. Chip/Colonel -- John Green
I fear your faith has been mis- placed - but then, faith usually is. -- John Green
Does my eye look okay to you? -- John Green
I was having one of those days when you feel like ... life likes you -- John Green
There was never enough air in the world, but the shortage was particularly acute in that moment. -- John Green
To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears; he was aware of their existence, but he 'd never seen one in the wild, and didn't really care to. -- John Green
Always is their thing. They'll always love each other and whatever. I would conservatively estimate they have texted each other the word always four million times in the last year. -- John Green
Ya think you's walkin' on water, but turns out you just got piss in your shoes. -- John Green
What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper or editors or agents or even writers. We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers. -- John Green
suddenly caught in the lie. -- John Green
I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then I said that the statue was built not for Schultz, but for us
to remind us how to be human. -- John Green
Most parents don't really know their children. -- John Green
You smoke for fun. I smoke to die. -- John Green
I would believe; you would believe; he or she would believe. -- John Green
You put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you -- John Green
The future is unpredictable. -- John Green
Living our bestlife today -- John Green
REJECTION MINIMIZATION THEOREM (RMT):
Think about it: boys basically, want to kiss girls. Guys want to make out. Always. Hassan aside, there's a rarely a time when a boy is thinking, Eh, I think I'd rather not kiss a girl today. -- John Green
The Colonel's hand was so little, and I grabbed it tight, his cold seeping into me and my warmth into him. 'I memorized the populations,' he said. -- John Green
Getting pissed wouldn't fix it. Damn it. -- John Green
I'm in love with the cities and people I've never met. -- John Green
I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you. -- John Green
I don't think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet contains a lot of videos of squirrels riding skateboards, but it can also be a place that facilitates big conversations about books. -- John Green
One of the points of being alive is we get to pay attention. We get to both participate in and observe this weird universe that is simultaneously like stunningly elegant and completely heartless. -- John Green
I like knowing one story and having everyone else know another. -- John Green
You put the thing that kills you right between your teeth,but don't give it the power to kill you -- John Green
I think inspiration is always around; it's just a question of whether or not you're noticing it. -- John Green
Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction? -- John Green
If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate! -- John Green
Okay can be our always -- John Green
I hated myself, too, not only because I let het go but because if I had been enough for her, she wouldn't have even wanted to leave. -- John Green
Our little infinity. -- John Green
When we vote, when we talk to our friends about what matters to us, when we choose whose lives we pay attention to [in medicine], we are deciding what our future is going to look like. -- John Green
I don't see any point in nihilism ... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else. -- John Green
So grass is a metaphor for life, and for death, and for equality, and for connectedness, and for children, and for God, and for hope. -- John Green
Like, you're never alone here. But also, you're never with people. It's possible this isn't a hospital-specific problem, come to think of it. -- John Green
I know so many last words. But I will never know hers. -- John Green
We have bottled all the stars this evening, my young friend. -- John Green
But while you were looking out the window, you missed the chance to explore the equally interesting Buddhist belief in being present for every facet of your daily life, of being truly present. Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there, he said, -- John Green
Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future. -- John Green
I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn't get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn't gotten to be a person yet. -- John Green
(Off topic, but: What a slut time is. She screws everybody.) -- John Green
Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you. -- John Green
But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck. -- John Green
Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way. -- John Green
At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze. -- John Green
Renting a tuxedo seemed to me an excellent way to contract some hideous disease from its previous tenant, -- John Green
If you just take ... the feeling of legitimacy away from them, if you turn it around so they feel like they are committing a crime by watching ... they'll be confused and scared and worried and they'll just return to their ... quietly desperate lives. -- John Green
Everybody was so kind. Strong, too. In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life."
"Quick, give me a throw pillow and some thread because that needs to be an Encouragement, -- John Green
In the darkest days, Lord puts the best people into your life -- John Green
In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life. (p. 28) -- John Green
He wasn't perfect or anything. He wasn't your fairy-tale Prince Charming or whatever. He tried to be like that sometimes, but I liked him best when that stuff fell away. -- John Green
Contemporaneity," to quote AIA, "specializes in the kind of battles wherein no one loses anything of any value, except arguably their lives. -- John Green
I can't remember, because I never knew. -- John Green
You can judge people by the way they treat waiters and assistance. -- John Green
If drunk were cookies, I'd be Famous Amos -- John Green
Okay," I said. "Okay," he said. -- John Green
I don't think God gives a shit if we have a dog or if a woman wears shorts. I think He gives a shit whether you're a good person. -- John Green
Sorry, dude. Can't talk about it. My lips are too numb from all the kissing. That girl kisses like she wants to suck out your soul. -- John Green
2. Gets blood on the first try," I said. "Seriously, that is huge. I mean is this my freaking arm or a dartboard? -- John Green
But what could I lose by continuing that had not already been lost? -- John Green
I've always liked quiet people: You never know if they're dancing in a daydream or if they're carrying the weight of the world. -- John Green
We're on a Trail / a Trail of Tears / There's Dip on MY Chin / and We're Gonna Die Here. -- John Green
I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team. -- John Green
If it doesn't happen to you, it doesn't happen at all. -- John Green
Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them. -- John Green
'Will Grayson, Will Grayson' is about two guys named Will Grayson who live in different Chicago suburbs who eventually meet each other. -- John Green
Pudge," she said, faux-condescending, "the sound is an integral part of the artistic experience of this video game. Muting Decapitation would be like reading only every other word of Jane Eyre. -- John Green
You know, we could just keep going. We don't have to stop. -- John Green
Without pain, how would we know joy? -- John Green
But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky. -- John Green
Books belong to their readers. -- John Green
Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful. -- John Green
And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract. -- John Green
The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing. -- John Green
Why would you try to kill this guy, Kevin? He's a genius. Nuts to your truce. -- John Green
Don't worry. Worry is useless. -- John Green
THAT'S THE POINT, SHERLOCK!', -- John Green
Books are so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal -- John Green
Everything's uglier close up -- John Green
She's so weird. I shrugged. Maybe she was weird, or maybe the rest of us were weird. -- John Green
Over to kiss him on the cheek. "Just so you know, I'm right here," Mom -- John Green
He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him. -- John Green
Yes, I can see her almost perfect in this cracked darkness. -- John Green
I've gotten really hot since you went blind. -- John Green
Ya'll smoke to enjoy. I smoke to die. -- John Green
Books are like tweets, except longer. -- John Green
Do we have time?" I asked. He smiled sadly. "If only," he said. -- John Green
Not like a heaven where you ride unicorns, play harps, and live in a mansion made of clouds. But yes. I believe in something with a capital S. Always have. -- John Green
Keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe ... but failing to open the box doesn't kill the cat. -- John Green
We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are. -- John Green
You'll... you'll... live your best life today. -- John Green
It's a road trip! It's about adventure! ... It's not like we have somewhere to go. -- John Green
Because no one thought she was a person, she had no one to really talk to. -- John Green
That does not count as math, because one does not have to understand how it works or what it means in order to think that it looks sort of beautiful. -- John Green
I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city. -- John Green
Some Infinities are greater than other Infinities -- John Green
Best things comes to all those in life who wait!!! -- John Green
I'm the motherfucking fox, no one can catch the fox. -Takumi -- John Green
Love is the most common miracle. -- John Green
People see what they want to see. -- John Green
There is no best and no worst, ... those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is -- John Green
With each passing minute, I'm developing a deeper appreciation of the word mortified, -- John Green
And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. -- John Green
Tiny Cooper is splayed out across the thin carpet, using his backpack as a pillow. He's wearing skinny jeans, which look very much like denim sausage casings. -- John Green
When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement. -- John Green
Some infinities are much bigger than other infinities-the fault in our stars -- John Green
Dude, I don't want to talk about Lacey's prom shoes. And I'll tell you why: I have this thing that makes me really uninterested in prom shoes. It's called a penis. -- John Green
French. Feel. Finger. Fuck. -- John Green
Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid. -- John Green
Ben came out then, his bedhead seeming to challenge our basic understanding of the force gravity exerts upon matter. -- John Green
Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals. -- John Green
In short, we are all goin. -- John Green
I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in. -- John Green
You're given a large measure of freedom here. If you abuse it, you'll regret it. -- John Green
Good morning Hank,it's Tuesday. -- John Green
Good books help you understand, and they help you feel understood. -- John Green
A drink this good deserves one's best posture. -- John Green
We just did an awesome job of not dying. -- John Green
If I go out there now, I'll freeze my balls off. Not that I'm putting them to any good use whatsoever, but I still like to have them, just in case. -- John Green
Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good. -- John Green
It's the eternal struggle, Pudge. The Good versus the Naughty. -- John Green
The silence broke:"Sometimes I liked it", I said "Sometimes I liked it that she was dead."
"You mean it felt good?"
"No. I don't know. It felt ... pure. -- John Green
This is the rough part, okay? so just stay tuned for the good part. i promise it'll come soon. -- John Green
Love is keeping the promise anyway. -- John Green
Maybe she wasn't loved widely, but she was loved deeply. Isn't that more than most of us get? -- John Green
This would be the perfect place to sleep: one could see the stars at night without getting rained on. -- John Green
Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else -- John Green
I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. -- John Green
It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself -- John Green
It's like she thinks my job is to please her, and that should be my dearest wish, and when I don't please her - I get shut out. -- John Green
I don't really care how people read. I care if people read. -- John Green
Nah, nostalgia is a side effect of dying," he answered. -- John Green
The truth resists simplicity. -- John Green
I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's a real privilege to have a seat at the table in the lives of young people when they're figuring out what matters to them. -- John Green
... if you don't say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true. -- John Green
Without pain, we couldn't know joy. -- John Green
Aren't you worried about, like, forever?" "Forever is composed of nows, -- John Green
He was looking for the most hurtful way to tell the truth, but of course I already knew the truth. -- John Green
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect. -- John Green
Interesting capitalization,' I said.
'Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle. -- John Green
Why don't we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that's not an easy thing to do. -- John Green
Omaha, Nebraska. Sac City, Iowa. Alexandria, Indiana. Darwin, Minnesota. Hollywood, California. Alliance, Nebraska. -- John Green
That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out. -- John Green
To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved. -- John Green
And he thought of Katherine XIV, who wore a black bra and also a black everything else. -- John Green
Why do you need an adoring public when you've got me? he asked. -- John Green
He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot - a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile. -- John Green
Has developed an issue with the ghettoization of scrambled eggs, Mom said. -- John Green
Beauty seen is only eclipsed by beauty unseen -- John Green
I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books. -- John Green
Maybe okay will be our always."
"Okay."
"Okay. -- John Green
That's the ting about pain. It demands to be felt. -- John Green
People are pretty fucking weird, if you haven't noticed. -- John Green
Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it's over
and you're relieved. -- John Green
The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. -- John Green
Stupid human voices always ruining everything. -- John Green
That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made up. -- John Green
And if freedom, most people find sin. -- John Green
Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die. -- John Green
I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided. -- John Green
Everything's uglier up close. -- John Green
It was fifteen thousand for a first-class ticket, but I'm sufficiently capitalized to indulge such whims. And the drinks are free on the flight. If you're ambitious, you can almost break even. -- John Green
She loves mysteries so much, she became one. -- John Green
Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time. -- John Green
Without pain we wouldn't know joy -- John Green
You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was. -- John Green
It's nice to have people who will feel guilty for you. -- John Green
I vaguely hoped that someone would come up and talk to me. -- John Green
It's that there's some people in this world who you can just love and love no matter what. -- John Green
Dying is the last thing I would EVER do! -- John Green
The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. -- John Green
There's nothing bigger in life than the little things. -- John Green
Is the labyrinth living or dying? -- John Green
But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. -- John Green
Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere. -- John Green
Dear Jane, Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes. Yours, Will Grayson -- John Green
I know love is real because i feel it,' Tiny says. -- John Green
Had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. -- John Green
It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else. -- John Green
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. - Alaska -- John Green
You realise that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you, he said. -- John Green
Fights were recounted, battles won amid wars sure to be lost; hope was clung to; families were both celebrated and denounced; -- John Green
How will we ever get out, straight and fast, of this labyrinth of suffering? -- John Green
is that breakfastization gives the scrambled egg a certain sacrality, right? -- John Green
Pain is a blunt and non-specific diagnostic instrument. -- John Green
And I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses. Of course, I had hoped that Peter -- John Green
via Ms. Vliegenthart this sixth of April, from -- John Green
I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, in the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them. -- John Green
I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar. -- John Green
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." - Alaska -- John Green
I love you' really is the gateway drug of breaking up. -- John Green
He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage. It hurt like the worst ass-kicking he'd ever gotten. -- John Green
You say into my cracks and I saw into yours. -- John Green
I could be worse, you know."
"How?" I asked, teasing.
"I mean, I have a work of calligraphy over my toilet that reads, 'Bathe yourself in the comfort of God's words,' Hazel. I could be way worse."
"Sounds unsanitary," I said. -- John Green
I was too scared to ask if I had reason to be scared. -- John Green
I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father. -- John Green
You can love someone so much, he thought. -- John Green
But you could also argue that there is something tragically heroic about fighting this battle he is doomed to lose.Is Ahab's hope a kind of insanity,or is it the very definition of humaness? -- John Green
The rough must be taken with the smooth. -- John Green
Nerdighters make me believe in America again. -- John Green
I am so freaked our right now, you could pull a clown out of my ass and I wouldn't be at all surprised -- John Green
-What's the secret to your wisdom, Will Grayson?
-I think it's that I hang out with the right people -- John Green
The labyrinth blows, but I choose it. -- John Green
Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome. -- John Green
March 4th, the only day that is also a sentence -- John Green
Writing does not resurrect. It buries. -- John Green
At least I carpe'd that one diem. -- John Green
It demands to be felt. -- John Green
I got to the threshold and looked up and figured I could not do it, but also knew the only way through was up. -- John Green
The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for the wrong crowd, they both seemed awfully smart. -- John Green
Oh come on. He's not gonna survive 17 bullet wounds, is he? (Spoiler Alert: He does.) -- John Green
I'm what I need to be at any moment to stay above the ground but below the radar. The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is 'I'm full of shit. -- John Green
I have guts, just not when it counts. -- John Green
If you have had a hard time then pain will demand to be felt -- John Green
Do you know what happened to you?" "The Beast got me. -- John Green
Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate. -- John Green
I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met. -- John Green
She loved mysteries so much that she become one ... !! -- John Green
She loved so much mysteries that she became one -- John Green
Funny thing, talking to ghosts," he said. "You can't tell if you're making up their answers or if they are really talking to you. -- John Green
I love people I've never met and places I've never been to. -- John Green
I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simplest pleasure of existence. -- John Green
As his parted lips met mine, I started to feel breathless in a new and fascinating way. -- John Green
Suffering is universal. -- John Green
Most Christians and Muslims believe in a heaven and a hell, though there's a lot of disagreement within both religions over what, exactly, will get you into one afterlife or the other. -- John Green
By the way, I've decided to start referring to myself exclusively as 'Daddy.' Everytime Daddy would otherwise say 'I' or 'Me,' Daddy is now going to say 'Daddy. -- John Green
We gotta do something about this frigging swing set,' he said. 'I'm telling you, it's ninety percent of the problem. -- John Green
It's a slightly creepy delight to see you. -- John Green
Schadenfreude,' Colin said. Finding pleasure in others' pain. -- John Green
If you don't believe,nothing ever happens at all. -- John Green
The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses. -- John Green
I don't really want to be the costar of anyone's life. -- John Green
Sometimes," Radar said to me, "he's so retarded that he becomes kind of brilliant. -- John Green
I know nostalgia is in the business of twisting memory into lies. -- John Green
I realise that you are, like, bursting with a constant need to rub yourself up against girl flesh or whatever, but can you just try to talk about it a little less in front of me -- John Green
Memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow -- John Green
I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane. -- John Green
God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will. -- John Green
I am a giant squid of anger. -- John Green
We fell. We got up. We ran. -- John Green
it's colder than a witch's tit in a steel bra, -- John Green
I don't understand why I screw everything up. -- John Green
I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. -- John Green
The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible. -- John Green
Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it. -- John Green
And now life has become the future. -- John Green
Random questions are the least random of all questions. -- John Green
Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes. -- John Green
You can never love someone as much as you miss them. -- John Green
God I love rainbows. -- John Green
You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. -- John Green
Why did breathing have to be such a work. -- John Green
Thank luck and DNA. -- John Green
Principled hate is a hell of a lot stronger than "Boy, I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown me into the lake" hate. -- John Green
God! I can't stand these fake grievers. -- John Green
Your responsibility is not to the people you're making the gift for, but the gift itself. -- John Green
Studies consistently show that the better people think they are at multitasking, the worse they actually are and I am GREAT at it. -- John Green
and in freedom, most people find sin. -- John Green
I try to live life so that I can live with myself. -- John Green
The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available. -- John Green
On the last day, the bad days seem so difficult to recall. -- John Green
We have to forgive to survive the labyrinth. -- John Green
We have to forgive to survive in this labyrinth [of suffering] -- John Green
His problems are so huge that your problems can just hide behind them. -- John Green
Thanks for not trying to see me when I looked like hell."
"To be fair, you still look pretty bad. -- John Green
He missed her all over his body -- John Green
MS's love For you: it Sleeps With the Fishes -- John Green
Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really. -- John Green
I think that forever is an incorrect concept. -- John Green
The cessation of desire equates to the cessation of suffering -- John Green
Above him, the interweaving branches seemed to split the sky in a million little pieces -- John Green
My response is being written with ink and paper in the glorious tradition of our ancestors and then transcribed by Ms. Vliegenthart into a series of 1s and 0s to travel through the insipid web which has lately ensnared our species, so I apologize for any errors or omissions that may result. "'Given -- John Green
We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. -- John Green
Dude, pillows don't break. Try something that breaks. -- John Green
God, people like that shouldn't be allowed to live. -- John Green
I try not to be scared, you know. But I still ruin everything. I still fuck up. -- John Green
I don't care how people read. I care that they read. -- John Green
And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles. -- John Green
It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing. -- John Green
Everything tastes like pennies. -- John Green
So what's your story?" he asked, sitting down next to me at a safe distance. "I already told you my story. I was diagnosed when - " "No, not your cancer story. Your story. Interests, hobbies, passions, weird fetishes, etcetera." "Um," I said. -- John Green
Everything's uglier close up," she said.
"Not you," I answered. -- John Green
So dawn goes down to day, the poet wrote. Nothing gold can stay. -- John Green
What about the rest of your life?"
She shrugged. "What about it?"
"Aren't you worried about, like, forever?"
"Forever is composed of nows," she says. -- John Green
And squeezed tight, so that I felt the heaves of his chest -- John Green
Books - they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions. -- John Green
I'm taken,' Gus said. -- John Green
He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him. -- John Green
I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering. -- John Green
Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you, minus something. He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage. -- John Green
Sometimes it seems the universe wants to be noticed. -- John Green
NOTHING HAS EVER LOOKED LIKE THAT EVER IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY, -- John Green
Both my parents are therapists, which means that I am really goddamned well adjusted. -- John Green
There is no try. There is only do. -- John Green
We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know? -- John Green
Since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever i turn on the tv there will be a law & order episode. this -- John Green
This had better be one extraordinary well-stocked BP station, because we are going to clear the bitch out. -- John Green
Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. -- John Green
You die in the middle of your life. -- John Green
There are no bad guys." "Yeah." "Even cancer isn't a bad guy really: Cancer just wants to be alive." "Yeah. -- John Green
Those seem to be the two choices, everything else is just killing time -- John Green
Pudge, what you must understand about me is that I am a deeply unhappy person. -- John Green
Books are beautiful for reading and they're also beautiful for holding. -- John Green
When I saw Orlando from an airplane, it looked like a LEGO set sunk into an ocean of green. -- John Green
We are now as I wished we could be then. -- John Green
Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering. -- John Green
There is not shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars. -- John Green
Your lack of ambitious is truly remarkable. -- John Green
This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch me - oh, god! -- John Green
We need never be without hope because we can never be irreparably broken. -- John Green
That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever. -- John Green
Look, infinite Hazels. -- John Green
In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to. -- John Green
The labyrinth sucks, but I choose it -- John Green
It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions. -- John Green
Don't forget to be awesome DFTBA -- John Green
Okay?" I asked. "Okay," he said. -- John Green
It's not shit, it's pee -- John Green
I wouldn't have a career if it weren't for independent bookstores. -- John Green
Lungs but could, conceivably, struggle along indefinitely -- John Green
I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister. -- John Green
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world ... but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. -- John Green
I love you so much and I just want you to love me like I love you -- John Green
When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart,
you'd stop suffering when they did. -- John Green
When it works, anticipation is far more fulfilling than surprise, because we are reminded that a sunrise is precisely as magnificent as it is inevitable. -- John Green
But mothers lie. It's in the job description. -- John Green
At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her days without increasing the number of them. -- John Green
In freedom, people find sin. -- John Green
It would be an honor to have my heart broken by you. -- John Green
This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library. -- John Green
So much depends on this observer of the universe. -- John Green
Little kids play house; they play war; they play relationships. -- John Green
That's the thing about pain," Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. "It demands to be felt. -- John Green
And I should have said something. Of course, I should have said thing after thing after thing after thing. -- John Green
Under the sink, I also found a tub of Vaseline so big that it could have only one possible use, which I didn't care to dwell on. -- John Green
How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. -- John Green
You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. -- John Green
You know what sucks about love? That it's so tied to truth. -- John Green
You live for pretentious metaphors. -- John Green
Sometimes the Universe wants to be noticed. -- John Green
People always get used to beauty -- John Green
I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much. -- John Green
And on some level it walways felt like kids paying at being grown -- John Green
The world is not a wish garanting factory -- John Green
There is a thing about pain , it demends to be felt. -- John Green
You of all people know it is possible to live with pain. -- John Green
Some infinities are larger than other infinities, -- John Green
I don't like reindeer. They seem like regular deer, only more dangerous. -- John Green
I don't even trust me. -- John Green
Prick us we bleed, prick him he pops. -- John Green
Love is bound up in truth. -- John Green
I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not, Takumi said. -- John Green
Grief does not change you. It reveals you.
t -- John Green
You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to. -- John Green
my lungs sucked at being lungs. -- John Green
Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams. -- John Green
It seemed like forever ago, like we'd had this brief but still infinite forever. -- John Green
That's the thing about Tiny: his problems are so huge that yours can hide behind them. -- John Green
I already picked a punishment. Now you just pick who we're going to rain our mighty wrath down on. -- John Green
I choose the labyrinth. -- John Green
The last time I was this scared, I peed myself."br>"The last time I was this scared," Radar says, "I actually had to face a Dark Lord in order to make the world safe for wizards. -- John Green