“And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Yes, it's difficult to ascertain whether he is trying to arouse her or perform a breast exam.” — 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
“Hi, Support Group Hazel. Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It rather goes without saying that Katherine drank her coffee black. Katherines do, generally. They like their coffee like they like their… — John Green Copy Share Image
“My whole life I though I was the star of an overly earnest romance movie, and it turns out I was in… — John Green Copy Share Image
“What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Yours most sincerely, Peter Van Houten c/o Lidewij Vliegnthart “WHAT?!” I shouted aloud. “WHAT IS THIS LIFE?” — John Green Copy Share Image
“The pigs can't stop the fox; I'm too quick,' Takumi said to himself. "I can rhyme while I run; I'm that slick.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Hey, I notice you look like you're coming down off a meth binge and smell vaguely of algae. Were you perchance dancing… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I brought you a snack," Takumi said, dropping an oatmeal cream pie onto my book. "Very nutritious," I smiled. "You've got your… — 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
“It's gas! It's gonna blow!" Ben shouts. He throws open the passenger door and takes off, running in a panic. He hurdles… — John Green Copy Share Image
“She wasn't a particularly funny person. It suited her professionally - I mean, you don't want your cancer surgeon to walk into… — John Green Copy Share Image
“But in the time between when something gets thought and when it gets done, the ball hit me square across the side… — John Green Copy Share Image
“So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Ben starts. "I Spy with my little eye something I really like." "Oh I know," Radar says. "It's the taste of balls."… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The beers all broke," he says again, and nods toward the split-open cooler, gallons of foaming liquid pouring out from inside it.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The next morning I had Twentieth-Century American Poetry at MCC. This old woman gave a lecture wherein she managed to talk for… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The way young people speak about one another's bodies says a great deal about our society. In today's world, boys are much… — John Green Copy Share Image
“But you see, I am in a similar situation. I do not control the little devil sitting on my left shoulder. The… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Qualities of a Good Nurse: Go," I said. "1. Doesn't pun on your disability," Isaac said. "2. Gets blood on the first… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I don't know whether it was the general anxiety of being on a date (albeit one with my would-be date sitting five… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Ben, there are more important things going on,” I answered. “DESIGNATED DRIVER!” “What?” “You’re my designated driver! Yes! You are so designated!… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Then on Sunday night while I’m at the computer checking to see if anyone’s online, my dad’s head appears in my doorway.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Then Augustus Waters reached into a pocket and pulled out, of all things, a pack of cigarettes. He flipped it open and… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You were with Margo Roth Spiegelman last night? At THREE A.M.? I nodded. Alone? I nodded. Oh my God, if you hooked… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Dude, I don’t want to talk about Lacey’s prom shoes. And I’ll tell you why: I have this thing that makes me… — John Green Copy Share Image
“or because he got eighteen years when he should have gotten more.' 'Seventeen,' Gus corrected. 'I'm assuming you've got some time, you… — John Green Copy Share Image
“What the hell is that?" I laughed. "It's my fox hat." "Your fox hat?" "Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat." "Why are you… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now… — John Green Copy Share Image
“WGrayson7: yeah. what are you doing up at 1:33:48? willupleasebequiet: waiting to see if 1:33:49 is any better. you?” — 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
“Kevin doesn't just wake up with that spiky bedhead look, Pudge. He works for it. He loves that hair. They leave their… — John Green Copy Share Image
“When you're on a Ferris wheel all anyone ever talks about is being on the Ferris wheel and the view from the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“So, with Elena, she put gum in my hair on purpose while I was sleeping, and the next morning I was, like,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I said, “ I’m sorry , sir , but we don’t speak Swedish .” “Well, of course you don’t. Neither do I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I want to have scrambled eggs for dinner without this ridiculous construction that a scrambled egg-inclusive meal is breakfast even when it… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I tried to go to sleep with my headphones still on, but then after a while my mom and dad came in,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Catfish always drink alcoholic ether if begged, for every catfish enjoys heightened intoxication; gross indulgence can be calamitous, however; duly, garfish babysit… — 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
