Because no one thought she was a person, she had no one to really talk to. — 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 don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving. — John Green Copy Share Image
I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person. — 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
If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and… — John Green Copy Share Image
When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and… — 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
You know what I hate? The outdoors. I mean, generally. I don't like outside. I'm an inside person. I'm all about refrigeration… — John Green Copy Share Image
Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’s like to be dying,… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team. — John Green Copy Share Image
Its almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person… — 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
In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be… — 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
And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as… — 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
It's like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to be soulmates. Or book. Oh… — John Green Copy Share Image
Tobin," Mom said disapprovingly. She wasn't a particularly funny person. It suited her professionally - I mean, you don't want your cancer… — John Green Copy Share Image
“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
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
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
I like the strings. I always have. Because that's how it feels. But the strings make pain seem more fatal than it… — 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
To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman. And I had done many of the things she might have… — John Green Copy Share Image
I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if… — John Green Copy Share Image
While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional. — John Green Copy Share Image
Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such… — John Green Copy Share Image
The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters. — John Green Copy Share Image
We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love. — John Green Copy Share Image
Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person… — John Green Copy Share Image
Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are… People are different when you… — 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
Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old. — 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
