“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn’t bare the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn’t bear the thought of… — John Green Copy Share Image
The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves." "So grass is death too-it grows out of our buried… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the… — John Green Copy Share Image
It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was… — John Green Copy Share Image
When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The walk felt long, but I kept telling my lungs to shut up, that they were strong, that they could do this.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“When I've thought about him dying - which admittedly isn't that much - I always thought of it like you said, that… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And what is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is itone second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I called Isaac, who cursed life and the universe and God Himself and who said where are the goddamned trophies to break… — John Green Copy Share Image
“So grass is a metaphor for life, and for death, and for equality, and for connectedness, and for children, and for God,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is a side effect of cancer," I told him. "Nah, nostalgia is a side effect of dying," he answered.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Nineteenth-century preacher Henry Ward Beecher's last words were "Now comes the mystery." The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you," and the Colonel whispered, "I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did," and… — John Green Copy Share Image
We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly… — John Green Copy Share Image
“As we walked, I kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I cannot stop thinking that she is dead, and I cannot stop thinking that she cannot possibly be dead. People do not… — John Green Copy Share Image
I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“but I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. The oblivion fear is something else, fear that… — John Green Copy Share Image
I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.” — 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
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. — John Green Copy Share Image
