All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby. — John Green Copy Share Image
I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship… — John Green Copy Share Image
Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't. — John Green Copy Share Image
It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like… — John Green Copy Share Image
But in AIA, Anna decides that being a person with cancer who starts a cancer charity is a bit narcissistic, so she… — John Green Copy Share Image
I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad… — 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
I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for… — John Green Copy Share Image
One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these… — John Green Copy Share Image
Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people. — John Green Copy Share Image
I love making YouTube videos. I love Tumblr, I love Twitter. I love talking with people I find interesting about stuff I… — John Green Copy Share Image
I love being in cities with lots of other people, because I'm reminded that there are billions of people like me, and… — John Green Copy Share Image
The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves or other people… — John Green Copy Share Image
How can you seperate those things though? The people are the place is the people. — John Green Copy Share Image
In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is… — John Green Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to… — John Green Copy Share Image
I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch. — 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
Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many… — John Green Copy Share Image
When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I… — John Green Copy Share Image
All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. — John Green Copy Share Image
If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone 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
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