“I'm what I need to be at any moment to stay above the ground but below the radar” — John Green Copy Share Image
“He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.” — John Green Copy Share Image
You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to. — John Green Copy Share Image
“He missed that, too, and it hadn't even happened. He missed his imagined future.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Those seem to be the two choices, everything else is just killing time” — John Green Copy Share Image
Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die? — John Green Copy Share Image
This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again. — John Green Copy Share Image
“The future will erase everything—there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion.” — John Green Copy Share Image
For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and took off, pulling me… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The thing is that I do believe in college, and jobs, and maybe even babies one day. I believe in the future.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Do you guys remember that one time, in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, that we somehow didn't die?” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Welcome to the future, Holmesy. It’s not about hacking computers anymore; it’s about hacking human souls.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s pause. “I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The stewardess was flummoxed for only a moment. “Well, that metaphor is prohibited on today’s flight,” she said. Gus nodded and rejoined… — John Green Copy Share Image
I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Finally I did call him. His phone rang five times and then went to voice mail."You've reached the voice mail of Augustus… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Always is their thing. They’ll always love each other and whatever. I would conservatively estimate they have texted each other the word… — John Green Copy Share Image
Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I never wish I could go back and write more, no. I spent a long, long time trying to write the book… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I want the past back, no matter the cost. It doesn't matter that it won't come back, that it never even actually… — John Green Copy Share Image
And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so… — John Green Copy Share Image
According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment… — 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
“He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that… — John Green Copy Share Image
“In the last weeks, we’d been reduced to spending our time together in recollection, but that was not nothing: The pleasure of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“the smell of canals and cigarette smoke, all the people sitting outside the cafés drinking beer, saying their r's and g's in… — John Green Copy Share Image
“For the first time in a long time, I drive with no music. I'm not happy-not happy about Jane and Mr. Randall… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There are so many of us who would have to live with the things done and things left undone that day. Things… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I am thinking that I don't want this to happen. I don't want to die. I don't want my friends to die.… — john green Copy Share Image
“Jesus, I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. I’m just going… — John Green Copy Share Image
Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future. — 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