Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster. — John Green Copy Share Image
I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an… — John Green Copy Share Image
“My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really - which meant I guess that he was… — John Green Copy Share Image
It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas. — John Green Copy Share Image
Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them… — John Green Copy Share Image
Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting. — John Green Copy Share Image
I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I… — John Green Copy Share Image
My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much. — John Green Copy Share Image
I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and… — John Green Copy Share Image
The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in… — John Green Copy Share Image
Hazel GRACE!” he shouted. “You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.” “Also Epcot… — John Green Copy Share Image
The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been… — John Green Copy Share Image
I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be… — John Green Copy Share Image
“What is wrong with your parents? It’s just reading. As a parent myself, I can certainly think of worse habits than reading.… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'll just go over to the Duke's," I said. "Her parents already told me I could stay there. I'll go over there… — John Green Copy Share Image
There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time… — John Green Copy Share Image
Do you have a Wish?' he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the business of granting sick… — John Green Copy Share Image
This is what happens: somebody—girl usually—got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down… — John Green Copy Share Image
You couldn't be more wrong," I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't think ministering requires a religious context. The number one thing is that every parent is extremely worried about their kid.… — John Green Copy Share Image
My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces.… — 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
I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Radar threw his books into his locker and shut it. Then the din of conversation around us quieted just a bit as… — 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
