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
“There is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.” — John Green Copy Share Image
depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. — John Green Copy Share Image
And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect… — John Green Copy Share Image
It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations. — John Green Copy Share Image
I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of… — John Green Copy Share Image
Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect… — John Green Copy Share Image
Hazel GRACE!” he shouted. “You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.” “Also Epcot… — 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
“I don't suppose you can forget about it and treat me like I'm not dying." I don't think you're dying," I said.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in… — 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
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
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
“This is your war now.' I despised myself for the cheesy sentiment, but what else did I have? 'Some war,' he said… — John Green Copy Share Image
Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories… — 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
“With a sigh, he grabbed hold of his chair and lifted himself out of it, then wrote on the blackboard: How will… — John Green Copy Share Image
Do you have a Wish?' he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the business of granting sick… — John Green Copy Share Image
“How fun it would be to bounce on the back of Lidewij Vliegenthart’s bike down the brick streets, her curly red hair… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I have never killed anyone, fictional or otherwise. I have no idea what it’s like to kill someone, but it seems like… — 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
That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor. — 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
The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny. — 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
Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’s like to be dying,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I would not be dying if it were not for her. I would have stayed home, as I have always stayed home,… — 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
