I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter. — 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
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 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
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 just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you… — 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
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
And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would… — John Green Copy Share Image
Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous,...It… — 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
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
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
You’re joining us for dinner, I hope?” asked his mom. She was small and brunette and vaguely mousy. “I guess?” I said.… — 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
When you're walking home at night, do you even get creeped out and even though it's silly and embarrassing you just want… — 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
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
You're amazing, and I so want to be your boyfriend, because of what you just said, and also because that shirt makes… — John Green Copy Share Image
Cause I'm just - I want to go to Amsterdam, and I want him to tell me what happens after the book… — John Green Copy Share Image
Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered.… — John Green Copy Share Image
So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted… — 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
There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward.… — 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
