All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. — John Green Copy Share Image
For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way. — John Green Copy Share Image
“Waking up was horrible, because for a disoriented moment I felt like everything was fine, and then it crushed me anew.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“He could just never see anything coming. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him inevitable yet invisible” — John Green Copy Share Image
“I still think that, sometimes, think that maybe "the afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You can't know what an experience will mean to future-you until you are future-you. You need millions of seconds of perspective, which… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I'm what I need to be at any moment to stay above the ground but below the radar. The only sentence that… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And maybe by imagining these futures we can make it real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them.” — John Green Copy Share Image
And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may… — John Green Copy Share Image
Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I never wish I could go back and write more, no. I spent a long, long time trying to write the book… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I want the past back, no matter the cost. It doesn't matter that it won't come back, that it never even actually… — John Green Copy Share Image
And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so… — 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
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
“If I become blind and the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me… — John Green Copy Share Image
There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with Augustus Waters. But thinking about… — John Green Copy Share Image
“He—that's Simon Bolivar—was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment… — 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
“And in that space, Colin thought, there was room enough to reinvent himself--room enough to make himself into something other than a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I spent the next three hours in classrooms, trying not to look at the clocks over various blackboards, and then looking at… — 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
“And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Margo managed to speak in her usual manic soliloquy without answering my question. “Did you know that for pretty much the entire… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There are times when it is appropriate, even preferable, to get an erection when someone's face is in close proximity to your… — John Green Copy Share Image
“She will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and everyone but herself and her… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire! Hell is in your future if you give in to desire!” — John Green Copy Share Image
“If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight for the hallowed halls of Winter… — John Green Copy Share Image
I stood under the awning for a moment, but finally I decided that being in a bad mood with your friends beats… — 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
“In that moment, the future - uncontainable by any Theorem mathematical or otherwise - stretched out before Colin: infinite and unknowable and… — John Green Copy Share Image
feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you… — John Green Copy Share Image
We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and… — John Green Copy Share Image
After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Colin: I figured something out. The future is unpredictable. Hassan: Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really… — John Green Copy Share Image
At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do… — John Green Copy Share Image
“or because he got eighteen years when he should have gotten more.' 'Seventeen,' Gus corrected. 'I'm assuming you've got some time, you… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There was never enough air in the world, but the shortage was particularly acute in that moment.” — 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
