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
“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
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
“So afterward, while I was getting eviscerated by chemo, for some reason I decided to feel really hopeful. Not about survival but… — John Green Copy Share Image
“dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and… — John Green Copy Share Image
It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Any attempts to feign normal social interactions were just depressing because it was so glaringly obvious that everyone I spoke to for… — John Green Copy Share Image
If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was… — John Green Copy Share Image
And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Its all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs… — John Green Copy Share Image
I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Human existence is temporary and all the knowledge of the universe we acquire will in time be forgotten because there will be… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole little life, and then… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Mom: 'I really have to stop doing this. I need to get a life.' I think she's directing this at herself, or… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And if Alaska took her own life, that is the hope I wish I could have given her. Forgetting her mother, failing… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Life is a lot like pizza… But in fact, Hank, the fundamental thing that all critical reading does is reveal to us… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Karl Marx famously called religion 'the opiate of the masses'. Buddhism, particularly as it is popularly practiced, promises improvement through karma. Islam… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I like short poems with weird rhyme schemes, because that's what life is like.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“imagine being actually stuck inside my head with no way out, with no way to ever take a break from it, because… — John Green Copy Share Image
This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again. — John Green Copy Share Image
Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future. — John Green Copy Share Image
It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. — John Green Copy Share Image
You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You don’t know that you’d go to college, find a job, make a life, see it unbuilt and rebuilt.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“And for the first time in his life, he smiled thinking about the always-coming infinite future stretching out before him.” — John Green Copy Share Image
You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you. — John Green Copy Share Image
That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of… — John Green Copy Share Image
At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see… — John Green Copy Share Image
“He wanted her to call; he wanted her to miss him; but as it turned out, he was okay. He'd never found… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“The fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what’s going to happen or when” — 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
