I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think... — John Green Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I'm like. Like. I'm like a grenade, Mom. I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I’m like a grenade, Mom. I’m a grenade and at some point I’m going to blow up and I would like to… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I'm a grenade. I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I couldn't be mad at him for even a moment, and only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the… — John Green Copy Share Image
Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation:… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I’m a grenade,” I said again. “I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with… — John Green Copy Share Image
I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be… — 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
