All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they… — John Green Copy Share Image
I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things… — John Green Copy Share Image
"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with… — John Green Copy Share Image
The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. — John Green Copy Share Image
Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re… — John Green Copy Share Image
I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he… — John Green Copy Share Image
When you're walking home at night, do you even get creeped out and even though it's silly and embarrassing you just want… — John Green Copy Share Image
What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees… — John Green Copy Share Image
Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all… — John Green Copy Share Image
The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real. — 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
Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd… — John Green Copy Share Image
I felt tired for the first time, and I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me… — John Green Copy Share Image
Like everyone, I'm saddened and horrified by this. All I'll say is that I'm personally trying to pay more attention to the… — John Green Copy Share Image
You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Real gangster-ass Nerdfighters don't run from nothing... 'cause real gangster-ass Nerdfighters can't run fast. — John Green Copy Share Image
When it works, anticipation is far more fulfilling than surprise, because we are reminded that a sunrise is precisely as magnificent as… — John Green Copy Share Image
That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough… — John Green Copy Share Image
Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think… — John Green Copy Share Image
Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are? — John Green Copy Share Image
People thought he was a glutton for punishment, that he liked getting dumped. But it wasn't like that. He could just never… — John Green Copy Share Image
...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly… — John Green Copy Share Image
Augustus Waters," I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank House, and then thinking… — John Green Copy Share Image
"And how are you feeling?" asked Patrick."Oh, I'm grand." Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. "I'm on a roller… — 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
