Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the… — John Green Copy Share Image
But the fascinating and unbelievable-but-true thing about Dr. Jefferson Jeffersonis that he was not a doctor of any kind. He was just… — John Green Copy Share Image
That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed… — John Green Copy Share Image
That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made… — John Green Copy Share Image
And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a… — John Green Copy Share Image
You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. — John Green Copy Share Image
Throughout the book, she refers to herself as "the side effect," which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects… — John Green Copy Share Image
You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in… — John Green Copy Share Image
All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Yes. The fundamental mistake I had always made—and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make—was this: Margo was not… — John Green Copy Share Image
You know what ambrosia tastes like? It tastes like all the things you can't eat on Weight Watchers. Cheeseburgers, sugar cookies, regular… — John Green Copy Share Image
In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit… — John Green Copy Share Image
High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most. — John Green Copy Share Image
In the end, I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because 1. I don't think that word should… — John Green Copy Share Image
Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting. — John Green Copy Share Image
Babies are made through an act that you will eventually find intriguing but for right now will just sort of horrify you,… — John Green Copy Share Image
I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would… — John Green Copy Share Image
You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you… — John Green Copy Share Image
I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our… — John Green Copy Share Image
I laughed and pointed out that "Hash Browns Mean Nothing Without You" was a pretty good name for a band. "Or a… — John Green Copy Share Image
I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Colin Singleton’s distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but… — John Green Copy Share Image
These are all direct quotes, except every time they use a curse word, I'm going to use the name of a famous… — John Green Copy Share Image
I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation. — John Green Copy Share Image
I could try to pretend that I didn't care anymore, but it could never be true again. You can't just make yourself… — John Green Copy Share Image
I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else.… — John Green Copy Share Image
In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was… — John Green Copy Share Image
I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department… — John Green Copy Share Image
How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.' 'Awesome, yeah,' Gus… — John Green Copy Share Image
She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different. — John Green Copy Share Image
“Some war,” he said dismissively. “What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me.… — John Green Copy Share Image
All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they… — John Green Copy Share Image
Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together." What?" Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud." That's who you really… — John Green Copy Share Image
In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is… — John Green Copy Share Image
I call my mom from the car. I tell her that Neutral Milk Hotel is playing at the Hideout and she says,… — John Green Copy Share Image
This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that… — John Green Copy Share Image
Cause I'm just - I want to go to Amsterdam, and I want him to tell me what happens after the book… — John Green Copy Share Image
You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice. — John Green Copy Share Image
People thought he was a glutton for punishment, that he liked getting dumped. But it wasn't like that. He could just never… — John Green Copy Share Image
We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love. — 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
