I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said. — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing. — John Green Copy Share Image
I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be… — John Green Copy Share Image
I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism. — John Green Copy Share Image
I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. — John Green Copy Share Image
weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think… — John Green Copy Share Image
Because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you. — John Green Copy Share Image
I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare… — John Green Copy Share Image
Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much… — 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
Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they… — John Green Copy Share Image
Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you,… — John Green Copy Share Image
He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. "You're so hot," I said, my hand still on his leg. "I'm starting… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It’s so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point… — John Green Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple… — John Green Copy Share Image
Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says, you know, I’m going… — John Green Copy Share Image
No, I don’t think you’re gonna be single forever, and also I don’t understand your obsession with romantic love. There are other… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I think how much depends upon a best friend. When you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of… — John Green Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first… — 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
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
...a taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was… — John Green Copy Share Image
And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind… — John Green Copy Share Image
In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was… — John Green Copy Share Image
Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are… People are different when you… — John Green Copy Share Image
Daddy is trying really fugging hard to think of a not-terrifying reason why you'd wake Daddy up in the middle of the… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think forever is an incorrect concept," I answered. He smirked. "You're an incorrect concept." "I know. That's why I'm being taken… — John Green Copy Share Image
I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our… — John Green Copy Share Image
Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page," Radar said. "For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris specializes in the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's… — John Green Copy Share Image
The way we still essentializ, we're constantly essentializing people as merely poor, or merely other, and in the end you can't have… — John Green Copy Share Image
Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist." "If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree." "I don't… — John Green Copy Share Image
The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard… — John Green Copy Share Image
Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think… — John Green Copy Share Image
We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very… — John Green Copy Share Image
Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such… — 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
