“Whether it hurts or not is irrelevant." "That's a pretty good life motto.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time. But for us, it's a little different.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“We started talking to each other like people who used to be close-catching each other up on our lives rather than living… — John Green Copy Share Image
“How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also the only way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Trane's playing is literally the most convincing proof of God's existence I've ever come across.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.. — John Green Copy Share Image
“So grass is a metaphor for life, and for death, and for equality, and for connectedness, and for children, and for God,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“He shook his head, just looking at me. "What?" I asked. "Nothing," he said. "Why are you looking at me like that?"… — John Green Copy Share Image
I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Instead, we were together in the non-sensorial place, almost like we were inside the other’s consciousness, a closeness that real life with… — John Green Copy Share Image
“what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- not… — John Green Copy Share Image
“That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It’s all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs… — John Green Copy Share Image
“All my life, I'd been unable to think straight, unable to even finish having a thought because my thoughts came not in… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Yeah, about the test... The test will measure whether you are an informed, engaged, and productive citizen of the world, and it… — John Green Copy Share Image
Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I thought, lying there, that I might love him for the rest of my life. We did love each other—maybe we never… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Me: “I refuse to attend Support Group.” Mom: “One of the symptoms of depression is disinterest in activities.” Me: “Please just let… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The chaplain has a good life, an easy life. He is well educated, modestly well-to-do, and awkwardly handsome. He has faced no… — John Green Copy Share Image
I was so frustrated with him. "I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never… — John Green Copy Share Image
“the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering..… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." (p. 28) — 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
