Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty… — John Green Copy Share Image
Is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. It was more than that. I know… — John Green Copy Share Image
Of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him-inevitably. And that's what I'd felt… — John Green Copy Share Image
I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must… — John Green Copy Share Image
I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be… — John Green Copy Share Image
At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved. — 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
But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The… — John Green Copy Share Image
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better… — John Green Copy Share Image
The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that… — John Green Copy Share Image
We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either. — 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
And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Every loss is unprecedented. You can’t ever know someone else’s hurt, not really—just like touching someone else's body isn’t the same as… — John Green Copy Share Image
Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like… — 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
“Every loss is unprecedented. You can't ever know someone else's hurt, not really...” — John Green Copy Share Image
I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt.… — John Green Copy Share Image
The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. — 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
