“Tuatara have been around a thousand times longer than humans. Just think about that. To survive as long as the tuatara, humans… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous...… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Dr. Karen Singh liked to say that a unwanted thought was like a car driving past you when you're standing on on… — John Green Copy Share Image
“it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There… — John Green Copy Share Image
There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time… — John Green Copy Share Image
I pointed at the little kids goading each other to jump from rib cage to shoulder and Gus answered just loud enough… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; / But you shall shine more bright in… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Margo managed to speak in her usual manic soliloquy without answering my question. “Did you know that for pretty much the entire… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I'm wondering how many times he can possibly use the word alliance in one sentence when Tiny Cooper cuts Mr. Fortson off… — John Green Copy Share Image
“But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And it's… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The other attack going viral on tumblr at the moment is that I write novels about broken people who need saving, and… — John Green Copy Share Image
So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Boys, I'm probably sleeping, but hopefully y'all got up on time. You need to be down at the factory by 9. Ask… — John Green Copy Share Image
“All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some… — John Green Copy Share Image
“She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I couldn't be mad at him for even a moment, and only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Eureka," Colin said, and only in saying it did he realize he had just successfully whispered. "I figured something out," he said… — John Green Copy Share Image
But why Alaska?' I asked her. 'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut word, Alyeska. It means… — John Green Copy Share Image
“thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this”—I gestured encompassingly—“will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon… — John Green Copy Share Image
“But there is all these time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And it's… — John Green Copy Share Image
“forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries… — John Green Copy Share Image
“That's what my dad is like-he really disappeared a long time ago, which is maybe why it didn't bother me much. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Does it hurt?” I asked. “No. Just.” He stared at the ceiling for a long time before saying, “I like this world.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it… — John Green Copy Share Image
History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people… — John Green Copy Share Image
And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as… — John Green Copy Share Image
Tuesday—we had school for the first time. Madame O’Malley had a moment of silence at the beginning of French class, a class… — John Green Copy Share Image
“In another 2,400 years, even Socrates, the most well-known genius of the century, might be forgotten. The future will erase everything--there's no… — John Green Copy Share Image
“He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The past, like Lindsey had told him, is a logical story. IT's the sense of what happened, But since it is not… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I told myself that imagining a met in my brain or my shoulder would not affect the invisible reality going on inside… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I kept thinking that it sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There was no planning. No time for planning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer,and people… — John Green Copy Share Image
But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell… — John Green Copy Share Image
Do you guys remember that time when we were all definitely going to die and then Ben grabbed the steering wheel and… — John Green Copy Share Image
The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“On time for us was thirty minutes before actually started, because the half hour before the first bell was the highlight of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“He awoke to his alarm the morning of the hunt at four thirty. It was the first time since arriving in Gutshot… — 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
