“Hassan said, "I'm a Kuwaiti exchange student; my dad's an oil baron." Colin shook his head, "Too obvious. I'm a Spaniard. A… — John Green Copy Share Image
“High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“On time for us was thirty minutes before actually started, because the half hour before the first bell was the highlight of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? I mean, I've always… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Margo managed to speak in her usual manic soliloquy without answering my question. “Did you know that for pretty much the entire… — John Green Copy Share Image
“If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight for the hallowed halls of Winter… — John Green Copy Share Image
And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so… — John Green Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The next morning I took the screen out of that window, and hid it in the back of my closet, where it… — John Green Copy Share Image
High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most. — John Green Copy Share Image
“The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty… — John Green Copy Share Image
High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole little life, and then… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The Colonel ran ahead of me, gleeful at his ejection, and I jogged after him, trailing in his wake. I wanted to… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the… — John Green Copy Share Image
Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you… — John Green Copy Share Image
“At the time I first realized I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at publicly funded institution on the north side… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I spent the next three hours in classrooms, trying not to look at the clocks over various blackboards, and then looking at… — John Green Copy Share Image
Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds," I added.… — 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
