“So dawn goes dawn goes down to day, nothing gold can stay." "without pain how could we know joy?" "Come quickly I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Without pain, how could we know joy? Suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There's a great quote in Gus's house, one that both he and I found very comforting: Without pain, we couldn't know joy.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I guess I had been looking toward the Encouragement above the TV, a drawing of an angel with the caption Without Pain,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I sat on the couch for a while as Augustus searched for his keys. His mom sat down next to me and… — 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