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
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
Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them. — 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's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of. — John Green Copy Share Image
Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something. — 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 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
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
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
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
The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor… — 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
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
Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But… — John Green Copy Share Image
You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All… — John Green Copy Share Image
I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those… — 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
She said Robert Joyner had killed himself with a gun. And then I asked why, and then she told me that he… — 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
When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come… — 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
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
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 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
“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
All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without… — John Green Copy Share Image
As I followed Margo's directions through the maze of one-way streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting… — 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 some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what. — John Green Copy Share Image
People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love. — 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
Does he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands." "No he has kind of amazing hands. — 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
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
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
“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
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
“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.” — John Green Copy Share
“He was hot. A nonhotboy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a… — John Green Copy Share
I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. — John Green Copy Share
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it… — John Green Copy Share
