If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was… — John Green Copy Share Image
The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said… — John Green Copy Share Image
That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get… — John Green Copy Share Image
You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does. — John Green Copy Share Image
But I believe in true love, you know? I dont believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick… — John Green Copy Share Image
Daddy is trying really fugging hard to think of a not-terrifying reason why you'd wake Daddy up in the middle of the… — John Green Copy Share Image
And I vaguely remember her smiling at me from the door way the glittering ambiguity of a girls smile, which seems to… — John Green Copy Share Image
The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by… — John Green Copy Share Image
Babies are made through an act that you will eventually find intriguing but for right now will just sort of horrify you,… — 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
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
According to Maslow, I was stuck on the second level of the pyramid, unable to feel secure in my health and therefore… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Much of my life has been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who love me, so I knew… — John Green Copy Share Image
That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does… — John Green Copy Share Image
Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does. — 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
The world is broken, and all our attempts to fix it will inevitably fail, and some day all life will be extinguished… — John Green Copy Share Image
Gus: "It tastes like..." Me: "Food." Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do… — John Green Copy Share Image
The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it… — John Green Copy Share Image
Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd… — John Green Copy Share Image
Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity… — John Green Copy Share Image
The thing about That Guy Is a Gigolo,' Radar says, 'I mean, the thing about it as a game, is that in… — John Green Copy Share Image
Nothing (at least that can be done by humans) immortalizes anyone. The Fault in Our Stars will hopefully have a long and… — John Green Copy Share Image
Does he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands." "No he has kind of amazing hands. — John Green Copy Share Image
Grief does not change you. It reveals you. And herein lies the gift that cannot die. It changes the course of your… — John Green Copy Share Image
the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate — John Green Copy Share Image
[My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is… — 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
![“[My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable...My interest is in trying to reflect the reality of experience-how we feel when we talk to each other, how we feel when we're engaging with questions…” quote by John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1dd/john-green-12_communication_my-interest-as-a-writer-is-not-in-reflec_3172245.jpg)
