“And for the first time in his life, he smiled thinking about the always-coming infinite future stretching out before him.” — John Green Copy Share Image
You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you. — John Green Copy Share Image
That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of… — John Green Copy Share Image
At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see… — John Green Copy Share Image
“He wanted her to call; he wanted her to miss him; but as it turned out, he was okay. He'd never found… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“The fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what’s going to happen or when” — John Green Copy Share Image
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving. — John Green Copy Share Image
I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning… — John Green Copy Share Image
“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the though of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not… — John Green Copy Share Image
I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? I mean, I've always… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The problem with happy endings is that they’re either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?'… Everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The problem with happy endings, is that they're either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some… — 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
“All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some… — 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
“Much of my life has been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who love me, so I knew… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I think my dad was so fascinated by this idea because he realized on some fundamental level that he was not in… — John Green Copy Share Image
Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Sure, I fear earthly oblivion. But, I mean, not to sound like my parents, but I believe humans have souls, and I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole little life, and then… — John Green Copy Share Image
You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet. — 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
When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And even though I laughed with them, it felt like I was watching the whole thing from somewhere else, like I was… — John Green Copy Share Image
People, I thought, wanted security. They couldnt bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldnt bear the thought of… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is… — John Green Copy Share Image
“we never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think think that we are invincible because we are as… — John Green Copy Share Image
It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was… — John Green Copy Share Image
“All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You can live a good life without ever knowing real love, of the Corinthians variety, but I was fortunate to have found… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and the bad ones. We were in the… — 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… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I thought of my dad telling me that the universe wants to be noticed but what we want is to be noticed… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And I wanted to know whether it is possible to live a hopeful life in a world riddled with ambiguity, whether we… — John Green Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons you're so terrified about figuring out what you're gonna do with your life is that you think you're… — John Green Copy Share Image
“All cells come from cells. Every cell is born of a previous cell, which was born of a previous cell. Life comes… — 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
