As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think we are invincible because we are.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“That's why I love road trips, dude. It's like doing something without actually doing anything." - Hassan Harbish” — John Green Copy Share Image
“People always get used to beauty, though.” “I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” — John Green Copy Share Image
“It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes” — John Green Copy Share Image
“It was a lame string, for sure, but it was the one I had left and every paper girl needs at least… — John Green Copy Share Image
“this is what i never allow myself to need. and of course i've been needing it all along.” — David Levithan John Green Copy Share Image
“Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Thoughts are just a different kind of bacteria, colonizing you. I thought about the gut-brain information axis. Maybe you're already gone. The… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It's turtles all the way fucking down, Holmesy. You're trying to find the turtle at the bottom of the pile, but that's… — John Green Copy Share Image
“But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You are my favorite person. I want to be buried next to you. we'll have a shared tombstone. It'll read, 'Holmesy and… — John Green Copy Share Image
“But for some people, the invasive can kind of take over, crowding out all the other thoughts until it's the only one… — John Green Copy Share Image
“No you don't", she answers, and she is right. She can see it in my face- I understand now that I can't… — John Green Copy Share Image
“But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do… — John Green Copy Share Image
“If taking a pill makes you different, lie, if it changes the way-down you...that's just a screwed-up idea, you know? Who's deciding… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Alaska finished her cigarette and flicked it into the river. 'Why do you smoke so damn fast?' I asked. She looked at… — Looking for Alaska John Green Copy Share Image
“It’s total bullshit,” he said. “The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he’s in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such… — john green Copy Share Image
“You can't fight mental health bias if you label people based on a lists of symptoms and you have no medical degree… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“It sucked having a dead person in your family, and I knew what he meant, about seeking solace in the old light.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I have never killed anyone, fictional or otherwise. I have no idea what it’s like to kill someone, but it seems like… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And even though it was ridiculously childish, in the end I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after… — John Green Copy Share Image
“That's what my dad is like-he really disappeared a long time ago, which is maybe why it didn't bother me much. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I could remember it. But I couldn’t see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Dr. Karen Singh liked to say that a unwanted thought was like a car driving past you when you're standing on on… — John Green Copy Share Image
“She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And as I walked back to give Takumi’s note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never… — John Green Copy Share Image
“and the HE stands up. if frenchy's could bottle him up and sell him as porn, they'd probably own half of chicago… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“And if Alaska took her own life, that is the hope I wish I could have given her. Forgetting her mother, failing… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does that imply a physical location… — John Green Copy Share Image
“A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heart-broken and didn't… — John Green Copy Share Image
