“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd… — John Green Copy Share Image
The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the… — John Green Copy Share Image
So here's my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you can, because that will make your life more… — John Green Copy Share Image
[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use… — John Green Copy Share Image
Sexuality is important, but it's certainly not the most interesting or important thing happening to you right now. We live in a… — 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
I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
We are engaged here in the most important pusuit in history. The search for meaning. What is What is the nature of… — John Green Copy Share Image
We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and… — John Green Copy Share Image
I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would… — John Green Copy Share Image
And I don't really have anyone upon whom I want to rain down my wrath," I said, because in truth I didn't.… — John Green Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first… — John Green Copy Share Image
The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think one of the most important differences between us is that you are excellent at living in a way that is… — John Green Copy Share Image
The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling. — John Green Copy Share Image
Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots.… — John Green Copy Share Image
That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like… — John Green Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing… — John Green Copy Share Image
One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with. — 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
I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those… — John Green Copy Share Image
We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are we going… — 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