“I thought, lying there, that I might love him for the rest of my life.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“The problem with chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to the point where nothing is real.” — John Green Copy Share Image
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. — John Green Copy Share Image
“It felt like I was watching the whole thing from somewhere else, like I was watching a movie about my life instead… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time. But for us, it's a little different.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“We started talking to each other like people who used to be close-catching each other up on our lives rather than living… — John Green Copy Share Image
“How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“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… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Trane's playing is literally the most convincing proof of God's existence I've ever come across.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Instead, we were together in the non-sensorial place, almost like we were inside the other’s consciousness, a closeness that real life with… — John Green Copy Share Image
“what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- not… — John Green Copy Share Image
“That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What… — John Green Copy Share Image
“the problem with happy endings," I said, "is that they're not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Omnis cellula e cellula," he said again. "All cells come from cells. Every cell is born of a previous cell, which was… — John Green Copy Share Image
I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo… — John Green Copy Share Image
But I believe in true love, you know? I dont believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Augustus half smiled. "Because you're beautiful, I enjoy looking at beaufitul people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I thought, lying there, that I might love him for the rest of my life. We did love each other—maybe we never… — John Green Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for… — John Green Copy Share Image
“So here’s how it went in God’s heart: The six or seven or ten of us walked/wheeled in, grazed at a decrepit… — John Green Copy Share Image
“My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I… — John Green Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe we return to haunt or comfort the living or anything, but I think something becomes of us.” “But you… — John Green Copy Share Image
She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, okay. So what is it?" "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having… — John Green Copy Share Image
“i feel like my life is so scattered right now. like it’s all these small pieces of paper and someone’s turned on… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." (p. 28) — 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
