“If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I’d be crazier than a shithouse rat. … — John Green Copy Share Image
It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. — John Green Copy Share Image
We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very… — John Green Copy Share Image
See, popularity is complicated. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about liking; you have to really like being liked,… — John Green Copy Share Image
...It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Everyone else is thinking about themselves as much as you are thinking about yourself and so therefore no one has any time… — John Green Copy Share Image
“At times, quotes from the books talk more about our lives than on the lives of the characters.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” — John Green Copy Share Image
And then we were kissing…The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I rally like my body; this cancer-ruined thing… — John Green Copy Share Image
“At the time I first realized I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at publicly funded institution on the north side… — John Green Copy Share Image
I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him—that I, like everyone in that room, would… — 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
“That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I felt tired for the first time, and I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me… — John Green Copy Share Image
Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; / But you shall shine more bright in… — 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
“I'm wondering how many times he can possibly use the word alliance in one sentence when Tiny Cooper cuts Mr. Fortson off… — 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
“Colin laughed as Hassan returned to counting the pennies of victory, but Colin's brain was spinning with the implications: if the future… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Once the vessel cracks open, the end becomes inevitable. But there is all this time inbetween when the vessel cracks open and… — 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
“Boys, I'm probably sleeping, but hopefully y'all got up on time. You need to be down at the factory by 9. Ask… — John Green Copy Share Image
“All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some… — John Green Copy Share Image
But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Home is Where the Heart Is, Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget. True Love is Born from Hard… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And for the first time in his life, he smiled thinking about the always-coming infinite future stretching out before him.” — John Green Copy Share Image
The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't. — John Green Copy Share Image
“But i doesn't much matter when you have just now realised, all the time later, that you are still alive.” — John Green Copy Share Image
You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet. — John Green Copy Share Image
The consequences of being un-cool feel so big that a lot of times you end of not finding ways to have open… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The last time I stand in a circle outside the band room in the shade of this oak tree that has protected… — John Green Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me… — John Green Copy Share Image
“you can make a Theorem that explains why you won or lost past poker hands, but you can never make one to… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The past, like Lindsey had told him, is a logical story. IT's the sense of what happened, But since it is not… — 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
“I kept thinking that it sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I told myself that imagining a met in my brain or my shoulder would not affect the invisible reality going on inside… — John Green Copy Share Image
Tuesday—we had school for the first time. Madame O’Malley had a moment of silence at the beginning of French class, a class… — John Green Copy Share Image
And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as… — 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
![“That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering. [p214]” quote by John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c12/john-green-12_meaning_that-brief-walk-was-one-of-those-moments_1599889.jpg)
