The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness. — John Green Copy Share Image
No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness. — John Green Copy Share Image
You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The silence broke:"Sometimes I liked it", I said "Sometimes I liked it that she was dead." "You mean it felt good?" "No.… — John Green Copy Share Image
The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The champagne had been donated by one of Gus's doctors - Gus being the kind of person who inspires doctors to give… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. In… — John Green Copy Share Image
The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty years there will be no one… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You are not a grenade, not to us. Thinking about you dying makes us sad, Hazel, but you are not a grenade.… — John Green Copy Share Image
I couldn’t help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching them—it was… — 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
“I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to… — 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
“Just before you went into the ICU, I started to feel this ache in my hip.” “No,” I said. Panic rolled in,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I tried to go to sleep with my headphones still on, but then after a while my mom and dad came in,… — 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
