I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. — John Green Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to… — John Green Copy Share Image
We're not going to break anything. Don't think of it as breaking in to SeaWorld. Think of it as visiting SeaWorld in… — John Green Copy Share Image
I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said. — John Green Copy Share Image
When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and… — John Green Copy Share Image
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most… — 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
the marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple… — John Green Copy Share Image
The way we still essentializ, we're constantly essentializing people as merely poor, or merely other, and in the end you can't have… — John Green Copy Share Image
To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman. And I had done many of the things she might have… — John Green Copy Share Image
I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a… — John Green Copy Share Image
I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you… — John Green Copy Share Image
That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get… — John Green Copy Share Image
And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says, you know, I’m going… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they… — John Green Copy Share Image
I like the strings. I always have. Because that's how it feels. But the strings make pain seem more fatal than it… — John Green Copy Share Image
Augustus: “You probably need some rest.” Me: “I’m okay.” Augustus: “Okay.” (Pause.) “What are you thinking about?” Me: “You.” Augustus: “What about… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism. — John Green Copy Share Image
Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are… People are different when you… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I think how much depends upon a best friend. When you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of… — 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
