“No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing.” — 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
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving. — John Green Copy Share Image
You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet. — 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
“One of the reasons you're so terrified about figuring out what you're gonna do with your life is that you think you're… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And I wanted to know whether it is possible to live a hopeful life in a world riddled with ambiguity, whether we… — John Green Copy Share Image
“All cells come from cells. Every cell is born of a previous cell, which was born of a previous cell. Life comes… — John Green Copy Share Image
“All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming… — John Green Copy Share Image
“we never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think think that we are invincible because we are as… — John Green Copy Share Image
It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You can live a good life without ever knowing real love, of the Corinthians variety, but I was fortunate to have found… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and the bad ones. We were in the… — 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
“There will come a time,” I said, “when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take Alaska's genetic code and you add… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty… — John Green Copy Share Image
“A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heart-broken and didn't… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. Of course, you… — John Green Copy Share Image
“but I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. The oblivion fear is something else, fear that… — 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
“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
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
Hi, I’m at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a… — John Green Copy Share Image
If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I don't mind worriers," I said. "Worrying is the correct worldview. Life is worrisome.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Yours most sincerely, Peter Van Houten c/o Lidewij Vliegnthart “WHAT?!” I shouted aloud. “WHAT IS THIS LIFE?” — John Green Copy Share Image
You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life. — John Green Copy Share Image
“It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“You can’t control it, that’s the thing,” I said. “Life is not something you wield, you know?” — John Green Copy Share Image
Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend. — John Green Copy Share Image
That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“she said, "That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape- the world or… — John Green Copy Share Image
His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn't even know that guys could turn me on-not, like,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets. — 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
