“Life is about doing things that don't suck with people who don't suck” — John Green Copy Share Image
“I called Isaac, who cursed life and the universe and God Himself and who said where are the goddamned trophies to break… — John Green Copy Share Image
“If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of… — John Green Copy Share Image
I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that… — John Green Copy Share Image
You can't just make me different and then leave. You can't. You can't change me and make my whole life centered around… — John Green Copy Share Image
“If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“I like short poems with weird rhyme schemes, because that's what life is like.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“imagine being actually stuck inside my head with no way out, with no way to ever take a break from it, because… — John Green Copy Share Image
It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Any attempts to feign normal social interactions were just depressing because it was so glaringly obvious that everyone I spoke to for… — John Green Copy Share Image
If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was… — John Green Copy Share Image
“the problem with happy endings," I said, "is that they're not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Omnis cellula e cellula," he said again. "All cells come from cells. Every cell is born of a previous cell, which was… — John Green Copy Share Image
I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo… — John Green Copy Share Image
But I believe in true love, you know? I dont believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Augustus half smiled. "Because you're beautiful, I enjoy looking at beaufitul people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself… — 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
“So here’s how it went in God’s heart: The six or seven or ten of us walked/wheeled in, grazed at a decrepit… — John Green Copy Share Image
“My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I… — 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
“I don’t believe we return to haunt or comfort the living or anything, but I think something becomes of us.” “But you… — John Green Copy Share Image
She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, okay. So what is it?" "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having… — John Green Copy Share Image
“i feel like my life is so scattered right now. like it’s all these small pieces of paper and someone’s turned on… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you… — 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
“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 Image
I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. — John Green Copy Share Image
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 Image