“each time he opened his eyes, beams of feverish, demonic pain shot through his brain.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Even though we fought, like, ninety-four percent of the time, I'm really sad.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister. — John Green Copy Share Image
All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. — John Green Copy Share Image
The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder. — John Green Copy Share Image
“Listening is a very rare skill, and in these noisy times, it is more and more valuable.” — John Green Copy Share Image
He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“No, its not, because you can see into the future if you have basic understanding of how people are likely to act.” — John Green Copy Share Image
How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“As the staggered lines past him, he thought about the space between what we remember and what happened, the space between what… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them.” — John Green Copy Share Image
There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I felt tired for the first time, and I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me… — John Green Copy Share Image
I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him—that I, like everyone in that room, would… — John Green Copy Share Image
“That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd… — John Green Copy Share Image
“When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I felt like I might end up anywhere, and imagining all the futures I might have, all the Azas I might become,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You… — 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
“And lying there, amid the tall, still grass and beneath the star-drunk sky, listening to the just-this-side-of-inaudible sound of her rhythmic breathing… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I thought it might be a fine time to say the Three Little Words. And I steeled myself to say them as… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Human existence is temporary and all the knowledge of the universe we acquire will in time be forgotten because there will be… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Seeing your past - or a person from your - can for me at least be physically painful. I'm overwhelmed by a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“But I just needed her so much and it never felt like enough and she wasn’t consistent and her inconsistency and my… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I know it doesn't feel this way all the time, but we get to choose what we care about and what we… — John Green Copy Share Image
“what's really annoying is that you don't read any Chewie fanfic. If you did you'd know that Wookiee was not a language,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“C-minus in algebra; A plus in coolology. See, popularity is complicated, yo. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of… — John Green Copy Share Image
Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend. — John Green Copy Share Image
“It never seemed like the right time. But of course, it never is the right time.” — 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