Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time. — John Green Copy Share Image
When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us. — John Green Copy Share Image
You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you. — John Green Copy Share Image
“The world is what it is. But the world is also what you bring to it, and who you share it with.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“There is only one thing in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid… — John Green Copy Share Image
“If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I’d be crazier than a shithouse rat. … — John Green Copy Share Image
If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in… — John Green Copy Share Image
It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t… — John Green Copy Share Image
That's what we should do, Hazel Grace: We should team up and be this disabled vigilante duo roaring through the world, righting… — John Green Copy Share Image
It was kind of a beautiful day, finally real summer in Indianapolis, warm and humid - the kind of weather that reminds… — John Green Copy Share Image
That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like… — John Green Copy Share Image
I couldn't hear a thing in the world but you. And it was so cold then, and so silent, and I loved… — John Green Copy Share Image
Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
The last time I was this scared, I peed myself." "The last time I was this scared," Radar says, "I actually had… — 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
Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to… — John Green Copy Share Image
We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don't wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not… — John Green Copy Share Image
As I followed Margo's directions through the maze of one-way streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting… — John Green Copy Share Image
I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don't treat everything superficially. And I… — John Green Copy Share Image
And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form… — John Green Copy Share Image
It always happened like this: he would look and look for the keys to Satan’s Hearse and then finally he’d just give… — John Green Copy Share Image
So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better… — John Green Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all… — John Green Copy Share Image
Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because… — John Green Copy Share Image
I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch. — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that… — John Green Copy Share Image
It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange… — John Green Copy Share Image
The amazing thing is that we're right to hold onto hope. The world may be broken but hope is not crazy. — 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
As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a… — John Green Copy Share Image
I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion. — John Green Copy Share Image
That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built… — John Green Copy Share Image
In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose… — John Green Copy Share Image
It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently… — 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 Image
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet… — John Green Copy Share Image
Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall… — 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
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
