“I knew from years of experience that pain is a blunt and nonspecific diagnostic instrument.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up… — 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 can’t be represented the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Le truc avec la souffrance, c'est qu'elle exige d'être ressentie. That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Every loss is unprecedented. You can’t ever know someone else’s hurt, not really—just like touching someone else's body isn’t the same as… — John Green Copy Share Image
More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but… — John Green Copy Share Image
You can say a lot of bad things about Tiny Cooper. I know, because I have said them. But for a guy… — John Green Copy Share Image
I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that… — 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
