The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real. — 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
We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love. — John Green Copy Share Image
I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.. — John Green Copy Share Image
Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect… — John Green Copy Share Image
Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as… — John Green Copy Share Image
We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are we going… — John Green Copy Share Image
You can't just make me different and then leave. You can't. You can't change me and make my whole life centered around… — 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
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
There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by… — John Green Copy Share Image
We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who… — John Green Copy Share Image
You'll live forever in our hearts, big man. That particularly galled me, because it implied the immortality of those left behind: You… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't see a future where we're all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and… — 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
In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie… — John Green Copy Share Image
But pizza was originally Italian, although, Italian pizza doesn't taste much like this because this pizza is fortified with sodium. Which is… — 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
I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally in the heart of Jesus.” “Someone should tell Jesus,” I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we… — 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
I couldn’t help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching them—it was… — 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
She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, okay. So what is it?" "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having… — John Green Copy Share Image
You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All… — John Green Copy Share Image
Nothing (at least that can be done by humans) immortalizes anyone. The Fault in Our Stars will hopefully have a long and… — 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
You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. — John Green Copy Share Image
There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what. — 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