There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what. — John Green Copy Share Image
The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves — John Green Copy Share Image
That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of. — John Green Copy Share Image
Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't. — John Green Copy Share Image
Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people. — John Green Copy Share Image
How can you seperate those things though? The people are the place is the people. — John Green Copy Share Image
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting. — John Green Copy Share Image
Everybody was so kind. Strong, too. In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life.” “Quick, give me… — John Green Copy Share Image
I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I… — John Green Copy Share Image
And it was just the three of us - three bodies and two people - the three who knew what had happened… — John Green Copy Share Image
I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad… — John Green Copy Share Image
I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't see a future where we're all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no… — John Green Copy Share Image
I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just… — John Green Copy Share Image
If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see… — John Green Copy Share Image
Babies are made through an act that you will eventually find intriguing but for right now will just sort of horrify you,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Don’t make stuff because you want to make money - it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because… — John Green Copy Share Image
…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there… — John Green Copy Share Image
I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be… — John Green Copy Share Image
I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those… — John Green Copy Share Image
I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if… — John Green Copy Share Image
All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Much of my life has been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who love me, so I knew… — John Green Copy Share Image
As I followed Margo's directions through the maze of one-way streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting… — 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
So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better… — John Green Copy Share Image
If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to. — John Green Copy Share Image
In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." (p. 28) — John Green Copy Share Image
It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like… — 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
