All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby. — John Green Copy Share Image
Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you. — John Green Copy Share Image
It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations. — 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
You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves. — John Green Copy Share Image
Your responsibility is not to the people you're making the gift for, but the gift itself. — John Green Copy Share Image
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most… — John Green Copy Share Image
I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for… — John Green Copy Share Image
When you’re as charming and physically attractive as myself, it’s easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they… — 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
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
Since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only… — John Green Copy Share Image
Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the… — John Green Copy Share Image
The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals… — 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
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
…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it.… — John Green Copy Share Image
If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see… — John Green Copy Share Image
I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just… — 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
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
The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses. — John Green Copy Share Image
People are different when you can smell them and look up close, you know? — John Green Copy Share Image
“People always get used to beauty, though.” “I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” — 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
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
In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." (p. 28) — 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
…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own. — John Green Copy Share Image
“If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone, anyone,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? — 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
I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think... — John Green Copy Share Image
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving. — John Green Copy Share Image
People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone. — John Green Copy Share Image
I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I… — 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
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
