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
“And what is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is itone second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must… — John Green Copy Share Image
“One of the challenges with pain - physical or psychic - is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. It… — John Green Copy Share Image
I like the strings. I always have. Because that's how it feels. But the strings make pain seem more fatal than it… — John Green Copy Share Image
I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that… — John Green Copy Share Image
At least it was instant. At least there wasn't any pain." I knew he was only trying to help, but he didn't… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I knew from years of experience that pain is a blunt and nonspecific diagnostic instrument.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Pain is like a cloth: the stronger it is, the more value it has." Is that true, Hazel? The grief does not… — John Green Copy Share Image
More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Augustus stepped toward him and looked down. “Feel better?” he asked. “No,” Isaac mumbled, his chest heaving. “That’s the thing about pain,”… — John Green Copy Share Image
“One of the challenges with pain—physical or psychic—is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. It can’t be represented the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“He walked over to Isaac and grabbed him by the shoulders. “Dude, pillows don’t break. Try something that breaks.” Isaac reached for… — 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
“Gus sat there, pumping his fist, waiting for the medicine to work, the medicine that did not kill the pain so much… — 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
