“I like short poems with weird rhyme schemes, because that's what life is like.” — John Green Copy Share Image
She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different. — John Green Copy Share Image
Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul. — John Green Copy Share Image
“I said I wouldn’t be the kind of boyfriend who reads her poetry, and I’m not, but I guess I am the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“That poem is so damned long. You'd think old Walt could have taken a line or two to tell us how to… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Like Emily Dickinson, I ain’t afraid of slant rhyme / And that’s the end of this verse; emcee’s out on a high.” — John Green Copy Share Image
Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I do not know which to prefer,/ The beauty of inflections/ Or the beauty of innuendos, / The blackbird whistling/Or jus after.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“So much depends upon the transparent G-tube erupting from the gut of the blue-lipped boy. So much depends upon this observer of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There's an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem that's been rumbling around inside me ever since I first read it, and part of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when you are sitting next to your… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that I had already seen everything pure and good in the world, and I was beginning to suspect… — John Green Copy Share Image
Whether you're studying electrical engineering or poetry, college is not about maximizing income, it's about becoming a better and more informed observer… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I go in and slip a note in Jane's locker, which I've gotten in the habit of doing. It's always just a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Does it hurt?' I nodded. 'You know Sekou Sundiata, in a poem, he said the most important part of the body 'ain't… — John Green Copy Share Image
“She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different. I lit a… — John Green Copy Share Image
In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life,… — John Green Copy Share Image
These are all direct quotes, except every time they use a curse word, I'm going to use the name of a famous… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t figure out which of these ideas, if any, was at the core of the poem. But thinking about the grass… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Mom took me off the BiPAP, I tethered myself to a portable tank, and stumbled into my bathroom to brush my teeth.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Nineteenth-century preacher Henry Ward Beecher's last words were "Now comes the mystery." The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The next morning I took the screen out of that window, and hid it in the back of my closet, where it… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when you are sitting next to your… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You shall no longer take things at second or third hand… nor look through the eyes of the dead… nor feed on… — 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
