“Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While Mortals Walk Past” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Una terrible tragedia, pero ¿puedo evitar mi mortífera belleza? No. Cargo con esta cara bonita. Por no hablar de tu cuerpo. En… — John Green Copy Share Image
I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe we return to haunt or comfort the living or anything, but I think something becomes of us.” “But you… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.” — John Green Copy Share Image
If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I knew we were all thinking of her, dead and laughless, cold, no longer Alaska. The idea that Alaska didn’t exist still… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Depression is a side effect of dying. (Cancer is also a side effect of dying. Almost everything is, really.)” — John Green Copy Share Image
You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The thing about dead people... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is...… — John Green Copy Share Image
“My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really - which meant I guess that he was… — 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
“I don't care if the New York Times writes an obituary for me. I just want you to write one. ... You… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. You could almost see through his eyes they were so blue.… — John Green Copy Share Image
I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he… — 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
“Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape—the world or the end of it?” — 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