It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to. — John Green Copy Share Image
In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that. — John Green Copy Share Image
You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me… — John Green Copy Share Image
Why would you try to kill this guy, Kevin? He's a genius. Nuts to your truce. — John Green Copy Share Image
What is the point of being alive if you dont at least try to do something remarkable? — John Green Copy Share Image
That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of… — John Green Copy Share Image
My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy. — John Green Copy Share Image
I love being in cities with lots of other people, because I'm reminded that there are billions of people like me, and… — John Green Copy Share Image
I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down… — John Green Copy Share Image
I could try to pretend that I didn't care anymore, but it could never be true again. You can't just make yourself… — John Green Copy Share Image
Daddy is trying really fugging hard to think of a not-terrifying reason why you'd wake Daddy up in the middle of the… — John Green Copy Share Image
I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
the marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a… — John Green Copy Share Image
I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare… — 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
[My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is… — John Green Copy Share Image
The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated… — John Green Copy Share Image
Tiny, the next time that you try to set me up with a girl with a secret boyfriend can you at least… — John Green Copy Share Image
Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are… — John Green Copy Share Image
So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better… — John Green Copy Share Image
How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.' 'Awesome, yeah,' Gus… — John Green Copy Share Image
Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we… — John Green Copy Share Image
The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it… — John Green Copy Share Image
Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it,… — 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
The ideas of directing attention outward, trying to imagine other people complexly, trying not to see myself as the center of the… — John Green Copy Share Image
Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation:… — 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
“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe… — John Green Copy Share Image
You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to… — John Green Copy Share Image
At least it was instant. At least there wasn't any pain." I knew he was only trying to help, but he didn't… — John Green Copy Share Image
The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Like everyone, I'm saddened and horrified by this. All I'll say is that I'm personally trying to pay more attention to the… — John Green Copy Share Image
Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together." What?" Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud." That's who you really… — John Green Copy Share Image
All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Much of my life has been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who love me, so I knew… — 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
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