“Which meant there was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also… — John Green Copy Share Image
Because no one thought she was a person, she had no one to really talk to. — 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
“there she is, and I am watching her through Plexiglas, and she looks like Margo Roth Spiegelman, this girl I have known… — John Green Copy Share Image
When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person… — John Green Copy Share Image
We are engaged here in the most important pusuit in history. The search for meaning. What is What is the nature of… — 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 have never really thought of him as a person, either.... A guy whose strings were broken, who didn’t feel the root… — John Green Copy Share Image
The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want… — John Green Copy Share Image
You couldn't be more wrong," I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that… — John Green Copy Share Image
She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to… — 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
You can’t divorce Margo the person from Margo the body. You can’t see one without seeing the other. You looked at Margo’s… — John Green Copy Share Image
It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood. — John Green Copy Share Image
She spoke quietly then, the tiniest crack in her voice, and all at once Lacey Pemerton was not Lacey Pemberton. She was… — 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
And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect… — John Green Copy Share Image
I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character… — John Green Copy Share Image
I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old. — 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
Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You… — John Green Copy Share Image
It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange… — 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
