Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty… — John Green Copy Share Image
The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both… — John Green Copy Share Image
We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must… — John Green Copy Share Image
You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?” — John Green Copy Share Image
...But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying… — John Green Copy Share Image
You couldn't be more wrong," I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that… — John Green Copy Share Image
Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother? — John Green Copy Share Image
True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the… — John Green Copy Share Image
I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview… — John Green Copy Share Image
“never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down. a” — 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
Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me… — John Green Copy Share Image
No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the… — John Green Copy Share Image
Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I thought, lying there, that I might love him for the rest of my life.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I felt tired for the first time, and I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me… — John Green Copy Share Image
Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just… — John Green Copy Share Image
Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the… — John Green Copy Share Image
Grief does not change you. It reveals you. And herein lies the gift that cannot die. It changes the course of your… — John Green Copy Share Image
I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just… — 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
