Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled. — John Green Copy Share Image
“You get caught in being something, being cool or special or whatever, to the point where you don’t even know why you… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There are going to be questions in your life-big questions-that need to be answered and deserve to be answer but nonetheless go… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.” — John Green Copy Share Image
feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you… — John Green Copy Share Image
Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy. — John Green Copy Share Image
“The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit.” — John Green Copy Share Image
What is the point of being alive if you dont at least try to do something remarkable? — John Green Copy Share Image
Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I know the secret that the me lying beneath the sky could not imagine: I know that would go on, that she… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Surround yourself with people you like and make cool stuff with them. In the end, at least in my experience, what you… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you… — John Green Copy Share Image
For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life… — 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
“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
“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe… — 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
“One of the challenges with pain - physical or psychic - is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. It… — John Green Copy Share Image
Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we… — John Green Copy Share Image
Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real… — John Green Copy Share Image
Cause I'm just - I want to go to Amsterdam, and I want him to tell me what happens after the book… — John Green Copy Share Image
I have spent my life falling. Not the kind that Tiny's talking about. He's talking about love. I'm talking about life. In… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape—the world or the end of it?” — 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
Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I'm so pissed off about it, because - I mean, I wasted so much of my life with him and then he… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The interesting question to me is: Can you go on and live a hopeful life in the face of intractable uncertainty? We… — John Green Copy Share Image
“and I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The problem with happy endings,” I said, “is that they’re either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real… — John Green Copy Share Image
“He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I do think the idea of living your life to the fullest is a little flawed. Like, why is jumping out of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I would always be like this, always have this within me. There was no beating it. I would never slay the dragon,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It's not about life or death, the labyrinth." "So what is it?" "Suffering." she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I told myself that imagining a met in my brain or my shoulder would not affect the invisible reality going on inside… — John Green Copy Share Image
“What?" I asked. "Nothing," he said. "Why are you looking at me like that?" Augustus half smiled. "Because you're beautiful. I enjoy… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Best day of my life was January 9, 1997. I was eight years old and my mom and I went to the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?'… Everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt… — 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
