“Without pain, how could we know joy? Suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You are amazing. You can't know sweetie,because you've never had a baby becime a brilliant young reader with a side interest in… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I guess I had been looking toward the Encouragement above the TV, a drawing of an angel with the caption Without Pain,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It felt like everything was rising up in me, like i was drowning in this weirdly painful joy.” — John Green Copy Share Image
It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be… — John Green Copy Share Image
You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television… — John Green Copy Share Image
The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness. — John Green Copy Share Image
“I sat on the couch for a while as Augustus searched for his keys. His mom sat down next to me and… — John Green Copy Share Image
Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There's a great quote in Gus's house, one that both he and I found very comforting: Without pain, we couldn't know joy.… — 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
