History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people… — John Green Copy Share Image
“In another 2,400 years, even Socrates, the most well-known genius of the century, might be forgotten. The future will erase everything--there's no… — 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
“He awoke to his alarm the morning of the hunt at four thirty. It was the first time since arriving in Gutshot… — John Green Copy Share Image
One of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in… — John Green Copy Share Image
Do you guys remember that time when we were all definitely going to die and then Ben grabbed the steering wheel and… — 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
“There was no planning. No time for planning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer,and people… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The other attack going viral on tumblr at the moment is that I write novels about broken people who need saving, and… — John Green Copy Share Image
So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted… — John Green Copy Share Image
“But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And it's… — John Green Copy Share Image
“As the staggered lines rushed past him, he thought about the space between what we remember and what happened, the space between… — John Green Copy Share Image
“If the future is forever, he thought, then eventually it will swallow us all up. Even Colin could only name a handful… — John Green Copy Share Image
He took a bite, swallowed. "God. If asparagus tasted like that all the time, I'd be vegetarian, too." Some people in a… — John Green Copy Share Image
So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Walking through the X-ray machine marked the first time I’d taken a step without oxygen in some months, and it felt pretty… — John Green Copy Share Image
“On time for us was thirty minutes before actually started, because the half hour before the first bell was the highlight of… — John Green Copy Share Image
The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Tuatara have been around a thousand times longer than humans. Just think about that. To survive as long as the tuatara, humans… — John Green Copy Share Image
“but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was a time before organisms experienced… — John Green Copy Share Image
I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis… — John Green Copy Share Image
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
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent… — John Green Copy Share Image
“thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this”—I gestured encompassingly—“will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon… — John Green Copy Share Image
But why Alaska?' I asked her. 'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut word, Alyeska. It means… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Eureka," Colin said, and only in saying it did he realize he had just successfully whispered. "I figured something out," he said… — 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
“Does it hurt?” I asked. “No. Just.” He stared at the ceiling for a long time before saying, “I like this world.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries… — John Green Copy Share Image
“But there is all these time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And it's… — John Green Copy Share Image
“That's what my dad is like-he really disappeared a long time ago, which is maybe why it didn't bother me much. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
I pointed at the little kids goading each other to jump from rib cage to shoulder and Gus answered just loud enough… — John Green Copy Share Image
There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Dr. Karen Singh liked to say that a unwanted thought was like a car driving past you when you're standing on on… — 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
“Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous...… — John Green Copy Share Image
“She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in… — 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
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
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