He took a bite, swallowed. "God. If asparagus tasted like that all the time, I'd be vegetarian, too." Some people in a… — John Green Copy Share Image
You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think... — John Green Copy Share Image
And it was just the three of us - three bodies and two people - the three who knew what had happened… — John Green Copy Share Image
I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview… — John Green Copy Share Image
As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Much of my life has been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who love me, so I knew… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each… — John Green Copy Share Image
There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what. — John Green Copy Share Image
Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we… — John Green Copy Share Image
So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle… — John Green Copy Share Image
People are different when you can smell them and look up close, you know? — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's… — John Green Copy Share Image
There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by… — John Green Copy Share Image
That's why people grow weary of listening to Dumpees obsess over their troubles: getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want… — John Green Copy Share Image
Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there… — John Green Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all… — John Green Copy Share Image
Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us… — John Green Copy Share Image
You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that… — John Green Copy Share Image
You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you. — John Green Copy Share Image
Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder… — John Green Copy Share Image
I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else.… — 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
