I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing. — John Green Copy Share Image
I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be… — 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
Sometimes the way you think about someone isn't the way they actually are. — John Green Copy Share Image
I think maybe I know why,' she finally said. 'Why?' 'Maybe all the strings inside him broke,' she said. — John Green Copy Share Image
When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us. — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor. — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think... — John Green Copy Share Image
He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. "You're so hot," I said, my hand still on his leg. "I'm starting… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It’s so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point… — John Green Copy Share Image
...a taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was… — John Green Copy Share Image
And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare… — 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
Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much… — John Green Copy Share Image
Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them… — John Green Copy Share Image
I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be… — 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
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
There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing… — 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
In the end, I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because 1. I don't think that word should… — John Green Copy Share Image
Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually… — 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 believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. 'The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.' That's God, I think,… — John Green Copy Share Image
I was thinking about this girl you love so much," she said, "And this place I love so much. And how that… — 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
The things I would do to that boy. I mean, not now that I know you're interested in him. But, oh, sweet… — 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
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 really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I was thinking about how part of your self can be in a place while at the same time the most important… — 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
I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd… — John Green Copy Share Image
Oh, my god," Augustus said. "i can't believe i have a crush on a girl with such cliché wishes." "i was thirteen,"… — John Green Copy Share Image
I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt.… — 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
I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just… — 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 don't think ministering requires a religious context. The number one thing is that every parent is extremely worried about their kid.… — 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
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