“If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of… — John Green Copy Share Image
I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that… — John Green Copy Share Image
You can't just make me different and then leave. You can't. You can't change me and make my whole life centered around… — John Green Copy Share Image
“If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.” — John Green Copy Share Image
Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler… — John Green Copy Share Image
This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library. — John Green Copy Share Image
“I called Isaac, who cursed life and the universe and God Himself and who said where are the goddamned trophies to break… — John Green Copy Share Image
I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because… — John Green Copy Share Image
It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't see a future where we're all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I guess these days this is a politically charged statement, but it seems to me manifestly true: You make nothing alone. Human… — John Green Copy Share Image
The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness, the frank knowledge that you killed her and robbed her… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It's a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all the cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves,… — 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
“The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you… — John Green Copy Share Image
You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All… — 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
“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
“Whether it hurts or not is irrelevant." "That's a pretty good life motto.” — 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