So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe. — John Green Copy Share Image
“We are both astonishments, the closest thing in the known universe to a miracle” — John Green Copy Share Image
. . . Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings. — John Green Copy Share Image
We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either. — John Green Copy Share Image
“All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming… — John Green Copy Share Image
I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of… — John Green Copy Share Image
The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have… — John Green Copy Share Image
“what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- not… — John Green Copy Share Image
We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are we going… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence… — John Green Copy Share Image
Whether you're studying electrical engineering or poetry, college is not about maximizing income, it's about becoming a better and more informed observer… — John Green Copy Share Image
And so much depends, I told Augustus, upon a blue sky cut open by the branches of the trees above. So much… — John Green Copy Share Image
We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the… — John Green Copy Share Image
I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I called Isaac, who cursed life and the universe and God Himself and who said where are the goddamned trophies to break… — John Green Copy Share Image
I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence… — John Green Copy Share Image
Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries - God, the nature of… — John Green Copy Share Image
We were kissing. I thought: This is good. I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad at all. I… — John Green Copy Share Image
Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You don’t get to have an opinion on whether .999… is equal to 1, for instance. It is equal to 1. People… — 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
You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in… — 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