“Every loss is unprecedented. You can't ever know someone else's hurt, not really...” — John Green Copy Share Image
“don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts… — John Green Copy Share Image
Well, but you can eat Grandma's cookies. They're not bad for you. They were made by Grandma. Grandma wouldn't hurt you. — 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
You dont get to choose if you get hurt in this world,but you do have some say in who hurts you — John Green Copy Share Image
“You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them.” — 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
“He kept thinking about one word—forever—and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage. It hurt like the worst ass-kicking he’d… — 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
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
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
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
I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Does it hurt?' I nodded. 'You know Sekou Sundiata, in a poem, he said the most important part of the body 'ain't… — 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
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
“Does it hurt?” I asked. “No. Just.” He stared at the ceiling for a long time before saying, “I like this world.… — 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
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
“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
“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
I was so tired of her getting upset for no reason. The way she would get sulky and make references to the… — 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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