You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves. — John Green Copy Share Image
We imagine people as animals or gods. -But she was just a person, a girl. — John Green Copy Share Image
I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position. — John Green Copy Share Image
Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books a supposed to be likable. Books are not in the… — John Green Copy Share Image
When people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals — John Green Copy Share Image
There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out;… — John Green Copy Share Image
People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and… — John Green Copy Share Image
Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust. — John Green Copy Share Image
When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take… — John Green Copy Share Image
I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we… — John Green Copy Share Image
Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler… — John Green Copy Share Image
I was enrolled in divinity school and thought I was going to become a minister - I'm Episcopalian - but I was… — John Green Copy Share Image
Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not… — John Green Copy Share Image
According to Maslow, I was stuck on the second level of the pyramid, unable to feel secure in my health and therefore… — John Green Copy Share Image
Teenagers are extremely funny, and extremely clever and intellectually curious. But they're also willing to ask questions about the meaning of life… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no… — John Green Copy Share Image
So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better… — John Green Copy Share Image
Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between… — John Green Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next… — 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
