“The problem with happy endings, is that they're either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some… — 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
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
When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And even though I laughed with them, it felt like I was watching the whole thing from somewhere else, like I was… — John Green Copy Share Image
People, I thought, wanted security. They couldnt bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldnt bear the thought of… — John Green Copy Share Image
I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning… — John Green Copy Share Image
“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the though of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Then on Sunday night while I’m at the computer checking to see if anyone’s online, my dad’s head appears in my doorway.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Margo managed to speak in her usual manic soliloquy without answering my question. “Did you know that for pretty much the entire… — John Green Copy Share Image
Grief does not change you. It reveals you. And herein lies the gift that cannot die. It changes the course of your… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There was no planning. No time for planning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer,and people… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I have never killed anyone, fictional or otherwise. I have no idea what it’s like to kill someone, but it seems like… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The thought, would she like me if I weren't me, is an impossible thought. It folds in upon itself. But what I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I guess I had been looking toward the Encouragement above the TV, a drawing of an angel with the caption Without Pain,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some… — John Green Copy Share Image
I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? I mean, I've always… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The problem with happy endings is that they’re either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some… — John Green Copy Share Image
“One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home ... With this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Best day of my life hasn't happened yet. But I know it. I see it every day. The best day of my… — John Green Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all… — John Green Copy Share Image
Thank you," I say, pounding his back probably too hard. "That was the best damned passenger-seat driving I've ever seen in my… — 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
