But I believe in true love, you know? I dont believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick… — John Green Copy Share Image
It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real,… — John Green Copy Share Image
It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do… — 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
I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must… — 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
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
For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life… — John Green Copy Share Image
We got off at the next exit, quietly, and, switching drivers, we walked in front of the car. We met and I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for… — John Green Copy Share Image
Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You… — John Green Copy Share Image
It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else. — John Green Copy Share Image
You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet. — 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
Breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; its something that happens with you. — John Green Copy Share Image
I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever,… — 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
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
Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many… — John Green Copy Share Image
By far the best cure for hangovers is not drinking excessively the night before.This cure has a 100% success rate, and as… — John Green Copy Share Image
The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that… — 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