“He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“He missed that, too, and it hadn't even happened. He missed his imagined future.” — John Green Copy Share Image
There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain. — John Green Copy Share Image
He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the… — 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 kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While Mortals Walk Past” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another… — 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
For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and took off, pulling me… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting. We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You… — John Green Copy Share Image
I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our… — 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 felt like I might end up anywhere, and imagining all the futures I might have, all the Azas I might become,… — 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
“The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would just leave you… — John Green Copy Share Image
“He was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching… — John Green Copy Share Image
The last time I was this scared, I peed myself." "The last time I was this scared," Radar says, "I actually had… — 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
“Jesus, I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. I’m just going… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of… — 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
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
“He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“the smell of canals and cigarette smoke, all the people sitting outside the cafés drinking beer, saying their r's and g's in… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I'm what I need to be at any moment to stay above the ground but below the radar” — 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
