I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb. — John Green Copy Share Image
“I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“I still think that, sometimes, think that maybe "the afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss,… — John Green Copy Share Image
I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our… — John Green Copy Share Image
“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the though of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not… — John Green Copy Share Image
“the afterlife mattered to me. Heaven and hell and reincarnation. As much as I wanted to know how Alaska had died, I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn’t bare the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn’t bear the thought of… — John Green Copy Share Image
People, I thought, wanted security. They couldnt bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldnt bear the thought of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers—where you just repeat what you’ve already said with phrases like In summation, and To… — John Green Copy Share Image
“But there’s a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people believe only because they need an opiate. Rabe’a al-Adiwiyah, a great… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I thought at first she was just dead. Just darkness. Just a body being eaten by bugs. I thought about her a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I thought at first that she was just dead. Just darkness. Just a body being eaten by bugs. I thought about her… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I thought at first that she was just dead. Just darkness...I thought about the slow process of becoming bone and then fossil… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I thought at first that she was just dead. Just darkness. Just a body being eaten by bugs. I thought about her… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I thought at first she was just dead. Just darkness. Just a body being eaten by bugs. I thought about her alot… — John Green Copy Share Image
Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause — John Green Copy Share
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -… — John Green Copy Share
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share
“Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite NMH song,… — John Green Copy Share
So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I… — John Green Copy Share
“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.” — John Green Copy Share
“He was hot. A nonhotboy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a… — John Green Copy Share
I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. — John Green Copy Share
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it… — John Green Copy Share
