“Yes, well, in that respect and many others, American high schools do rather resemble prisons.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“I knew how disgusting I was. I knew. I knew now for sure. I wasn't possessed by a demon. I was the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Nobody gets anybody else, not really. We're all stuck inside ourselves.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“For the record, he who does fear death also dies only once, but whatever.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Partly, I kept forgetting, but also there was something else I couldn't quite identify, some way-down fear that taking a pill to… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And if you can't pick what you do or think about, then maybe you aren't really real, you know? Maybe I'm just… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and… — John Green Copy Share Image
“But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. Of course,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The world is billions of years old, and life is a product of nucleotide mutation and everything. But the world is also… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You'd think solving mysteries would bring you closure, that closing the loop would comfort and quiet your mind. But it never does.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Felt myself slipping, but even that's a metaphor. Descending, but that is, too. Forged in the smithy of someone else's soul. Please… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Holmesy, you okay?" Daisy asked. I nodded. Sometimes I wondered why she liked me, or at least tolerated me. Why any of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“At the time I first realized I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at publicly funded institution on the north side… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Dr. Karen Singh liked to say that a unwanted thought was like a car driving past you when you're standing on on… — John Green Copy Share Image
“If taking a pill makes you different, lie, if it changes the way-down you...that's just a screwed-up idea, you know? Who's deciding… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It sucked having a dead person in your family, and I knew what he meant, about seeking solace in the old light.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The problem with happy endings,” I said, “is that they’re either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And even though I laughed with them, it felt like I was watching the whole thing from somewhere else, like I was… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Thoughts are just a different kind of bacteria, colonizing you. I thought about the gut-brain information axis. Maybe you're already gone. The… — 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
