I was so frustrated with him. "I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never… — 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
You don't want romantic advice from me, you want romantic advice from Edward Cullen. I completely understand but he is completely unavailable… — John Green Copy Share Image
It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.' 'Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said. 'It can… — John Green Copy Share Image
I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did. — John Green Copy Share Image
Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it. — John Green Copy Share Image
But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky. — John Green Copy Share Image
Don’t make stuff because you want to make money - it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because… — John Green Copy Share Image
I change my keyboard between every book. I usually shop around. I'm very passionate about the physical feel of pressing the keys.… — John Green Copy Share Image
I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be… — John Green Copy Share Image
But in AIA, Anna decides that being a person with cancer who starts a cancer charity is a bit narcissistic, so she… — John Green Copy Share Image
How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" In reality, "How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" were probably… — 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
I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I… — John Green Copy Share Image
As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a… — John Green Copy Share Image
I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually… — John Green Copy Share Image
I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow. — John Green Copy Share Image
I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position. — John Green Copy Share Image
Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I… — 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
Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison,… — John Green Copy Share Image
The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want… — John Green Copy Share Image
Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually… — John Green Copy Share Image
I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But,… — John Green Copy Share Image
We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want… — John Green Copy Share Image
I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister. — John Green Copy Share Image
But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn't really emotionally ready… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't want to hear another negative word about cheerleaders. If it weren't for cheerleaders, who would tell us when and how… — John Green Copy Share Image
From the front Rdar announces, "Don't you go talking bad about GoFast bars. Do you want me to stop this car?" "Whenever… — John Green Copy Share Image
Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction? — John Green Copy Share Image
I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance... — 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
Me: "If you want me to be a teenager, don't send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I… — John Green Copy Share Image
"Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see… — John Green Copy Share Image
So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed,… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think... — John Green Copy Share Image
We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a… — 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
