“That’s the thing about pain,” Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. “It demands to be felt.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Pain demands to be felt," he said, which was a line from An Imperial Affliction.” — John Green Copy Share Image
There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain. — John Green Copy Share Image
“The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt.” — 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
“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
“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
“because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering must be endured stoically,… — John Green Copy Share Image
We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like… — John Green Copy Share Image
Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity… — 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
