It's like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to be soulmates. Or book. Oh… — John Green Copy Share Image
The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves — John Green Copy Share Image
That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people. — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so… — John Green Copy Share Image
When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff.' Which is not a good insult at all, like,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand… — John Green Copy Share Image
I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be… — John Green Copy Share Image
Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me.… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." (p. 28) — John Green Copy Share Image
Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just… — John Green Copy Share Image
People always get used to beauty, though.” “I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he answered, smiling. I felt myself blushing.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Don’t make stuff because you want to make money - it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because… — John Green Copy Share Image
Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.” “My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s… — John Green Copy Share Image
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting. — John Green Copy Share Image
History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people… — John Green Copy Share Image
Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are… People are different when you… — John Green Copy Share Image
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. — John Green Copy Share Image
…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own. — John Green Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response… — John Green Copy Share Image
Always' was a promise! How can you just break the promise?" "Sometimes people don't always understand the promises they're making when they… — John Green Copy Share Image
I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be… — John Green Copy Share Image
Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'. — John Green Copy Share Image
The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses. — John Green Copy Share Image
“Which meant there was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also… — 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
