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
“because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering must be endured stoically,… — John Green Copy Share Image
We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. — John Green Copy Share Image
What happened?" "During the kiss?" "No, with you and Caroline." "Oh," he said. And then after a second, "Caroline is no longer… — John Green Copy Share Image
Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about. — John Green Copy Share Image
“The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?'.... Everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. Bolívar was talking about the pain, not about the living… — John Green Copy Share Image
Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity… — John Green Copy Share Image
Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be.… — John Green Copy Share Image
I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be… — 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
