The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'll just go over to the Duke's," I said. "Her parents already told me I could stay there. I'll go over there… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You know how people are always saying your parents are always right? "Follow your parents' advice; they know what's good for you."… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when you are sitting next to your… — John Green Copy Share Image
Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Dr. Singh told me once that if you have a perfectly tuned guitar and a perfectly tuned violin in the same room,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when you are sitting next to your… — John Green Copy Share Image
I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and… — John Green Copy Share Image
There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time… — John Green Copy Share Image
The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while… — John Green Copy Share Image
“How did you get so grown up that you understand things that confuse your ancient mother?” — John Green Copy Share Image
“I thought of Otto Frank not being a father anymore, left with a diary instead of a wife and two daughters.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don’t know really their children.” — 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
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
“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
“Lady and gentleman, when my parents left Korea with nothing but the clothes on their backs and the considerable wealth they had… — John Green Copy Share Image
Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster. — John Green Copy Share Image
“The madness of wealth,” my mother mumbled. “Sometimes you think you’re spending money, but all along the money’s spending you.” — John Green Copy Share Image
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent… — John Green Copy Share Image
They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“You think they liked me?' 'Sure they did. Who cares, though? They're just parents.' 'They're your parents,' he said, glancing over at… — 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
I don't think ministering requires a religious context. The number one thing is that every parent is extremely worried about their kid.… — 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
My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces.… — John Green Copy Share Image
This is what happens: somebody—girl usually—got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Public education does not exist for the benefit of students or the benefit of their parents. It exists for the benefit of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“That which came together will fall apart imperceptibly slowly, and I will forget, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents’ throw pillows. You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply… — John Green Copy Share Image
My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much. — John Green Copy Share Image
“Both my parents are therapists, which means that I am really goddamned well adjusted.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Ninety-nine percent of the time, your parents never have to know, though. The school doesn't want your parents to think you became… — John Green Copy Share Image
The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for… — 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
