“Yes, well, in that respect and many others, American high schools do rather resemble prisons.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“I knew how disgusting I was. I knew. I knew now for sure. I wasn't possessed by a demon. I was the… — John Green Copy Share Image
“We are both astonishments, the closest thing in the known universe to a miracle” — John Green Copy Share Image
“True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Adults think they're wielding power, but really power is wielding them” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Partly, I kept forgetting, but also there was something else I couldn't quite identify, some way-down fear that taking a pill to… — John Green Copy Share Image
“In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt like we were in… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And if you can't pick what you do or think about, then maybe you aren't really real, you know? Maybe I'm just… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and… — John Green Copy Share Image
“But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. Of course,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The world is billions of years old, and life is a product of nucleotide mutation and everything. But the world is also… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You'd think solving mysteries would bring you closure, that closing the loop would comfort and quiet your mind. But it never does.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“But for some people, the invasive can kind of take over, crowding out all the other thoughts until it's the only one… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It's just such an odd response to my fiction. Like, okay, follow the thread of thoughts with me: 'I really enjoyed this… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Seeing your past - or a person from your - can for me at least be physically painful. I'm overwhelmed by a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There's an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem that's been rumbling around inside me ever since I first read it, and part of… — 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
“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
“If taking a pill makes you different, lie, if it changes the way-down you...that's just a screwed-up idea, you know? Who's deciding… — John Green Copy Share Image
“For the record, he who does fear death also dies only once, but whatever.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Nobody gets anybody else, not really. We're all stuck inside ourselves.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Felt myself slipping, but even that's a metaphor. Descending, but that is, too. Forged in the smithy of someone else's soul. Please… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Holmesy, you okay?" Daisy asked. I nodded. Sometimes I wondered why she liked me, or at least tolerated me. Why any of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Every loss is unprecedented. You can’t ever know someone else’s hurt, not really—just like touching someone else's body isn’t the same as… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The problem with happy endings,” I said, “is that they’re either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You are my favorite person. I want to be buried next to you. we'll have a shared tombstone. It'll read, 'Holmesy and… — John Green Copy Share Image
“And even though I laughed with them, it felt like I was watching the whole thing from somewhere else, like I was… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Thoughts are just a different kind of bacteria, colonizing you. I thought about the gut-brain information axis. Maybe you're already gone. The… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I like short poems with weird rhyme schemes, because that's what life is like.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“It spans the whole alphabet, because we wanted you to now you can be anything.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“I would always be like this, always have this within me. There was no beating it. I would never slay the dragon,… — 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
