“That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait to die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE… — John Green Copy Share Image
If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE… — John Green Copy Share Image
“We should do something,” I said. “Can the something be play blind-guy video games while sitting on the couch?” “Yeah, that’s just… — John Green Copy Share Image
That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of… — John Green Copy Share Image
In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It's not about life or death, the labyrinth." "So what is it?" "Suffering." she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen… — John Green Copy Share Image
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I don't really understand the point of crying. Also, I feel that crying is almost- like, aside from deaths of relatives or… — John Green Copy Share Image
Also, I feel that crying is almost--like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever-- totally avoidable if you follow two very simple… — John Green Copy Share Image
Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“For the record, he who does fear death also dies only once, but whatever.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The difference between people and dogs is that dogs know how to be dogs.” I know this to be true, at least… — John Green Copy Share Image
“People wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones… — John Green Copy Share Image
The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny. — John Green Copy Share Image
If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that I had already seen everything pure and good in the world, and I was beginning to suspect… — John Green Copy Share Image
“or because he got eighteen years when he should have gotten more.' 'Seventeen,' Gus corrected. 'I'm assuming you've got some time, you… — John Green Copy Share Image
What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like… — John Green Copy Share Image
“All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming… — 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