Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most… — John Green Copy Share Image
The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I just think if you don't say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I-” — John Green Copy Share Image
“But the truth is that I had never wanted him to kiss me, not in the way you are supposed to want… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Hazel is different. She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. Hazel knows the truth: we're as likely to… — John Green Copy Share Image
One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these… — John Green Copy Share Image
The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves or other people… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Amsterdam is a city if sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“That’s what I believe. I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You hear a lot about the benefits of insanity or whatever - like, Dr. Karen Singh had once told me this Edgar… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The thing about dead people,” he said, and then stopped himself. “The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don’t… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them,” I said. Isaac shot me a look. “Right, of course.… — John Green Copy Share Image
And I don't really have anyone upon whom I want to rain down my wrath," I said, because in truth I didn't.… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think one of the most important differences between us is that you are excellent at living in a way that is… — John Green Copy Share Image
“if you don’t say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“He was looking for the most hurtful way to tell the truth, but of course I already knew the truth.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“To tell you the truth, I prefer just your average, run-of-the-mill, everyday jackass with his glass-eyed, slack-jawed obliviousness to the guys who… — John Green Copy Share Image
One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he… — John Green Copy Share Image
“What the hell is instant ? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The thing about dead people... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is...… — John Green Copy Share Image
The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be… — John Green Copy Share Image
The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. — John Green Copy Share Image
“For some reason, I wanted to tell him the truth. “Whether it hurts is kind of irrelevant.” “That’s a pretty good life… — John Green Copy Share Image
“When observation fails to align with a truth, what do you trust--your senses or your truth? The Greeks didn't even have a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The truth is that it hurts because it's real-it hurts because it mattered.” — 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
“But this was the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying, poisoned by an infected… — 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