Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It never seemed like the right time. But of course, it never is the right time.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I lean in this time, and she doesn't turn away. It's cold, and our lips are dry, noses a little wet, foreheads… — John Green Copy Share Image
You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to. — John Green Copy Share Image
“Maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Always is their thing. They’ll always love each other and whatever. I would conservatively estimate they have texted each other the word… — John Green Copy Share Image
“it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time. But for us, it's a little different.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“And lying there, amid the tall, still grass and beneath the star-drunk sky, listening to the just-this-side-of-inaudible sound of her rhythmic breathing… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I couldn't be mad at him for even a moment, and only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Someone once told her there’s a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it’s half as long as… — John Green Copy Share Image
According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment… — John Green Copy Share Image
Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
“This comment, however, leads me to wonder: What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the… — 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
“each time he opened his eyes, beams of feverish, demonic pain shot through his brain.” — 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
“In the last weeks, we’d been reduced to spending our time together in recollection, but that was not nothing: The pleasure of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.… — John Green Copy Share Image
But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell… — John Green Copy Share Image
“He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and… — 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