I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance... — John Green Copy Share Image
Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper — 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 just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter. — 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
He may be a malevolent sorcerer, but Tiny Cooper is his own goddamned man, and if he wants to be a gigantic… — 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 tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse… — 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
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 think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position. — 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
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
Of course, sweetie," his mom said. "We'll be here all day. You just come down whenever you want and we love you… — 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
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
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
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
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
I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have… — 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
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
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
Don't make fun of her," the Duke said. "She needs gentle encouragement. Carla, baby, we love you. You are such a good… — 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
Too pissed off to cry, I said, 'This is only making me hate her. I don't want to hate her. And what's… — 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
But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky. — John Green Copy Share Image
I didn't want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus. — 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
I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did. — 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
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
