Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of. — John Green Copy Share Image
“When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.” — 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
“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
“Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape—the world or the end of it?” — John Green Copy Share Image
“For the record, he who does fear death also dies only once, but whatever.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted… — 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
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
“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
Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand… — John Green Copy Share Image
“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 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
“The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If 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
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
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
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
“she said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, Okay. So what is it?" "Suffering" She said. "Doing wrong and having… — 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
“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
“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
“Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered.… — 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
The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny. — 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
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect. — John Green Copy Share Image
“Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town.” — 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
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
“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
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
