After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth.… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else...But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows, and that kind of bright, soft light you get when… — 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
You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of… — John Green Copy Share Image
I could be worse, you know." "How?" I asked, teasing. "I mean, I have a work of calligraphy over my toilet that… — John Green Copy Share Image
Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are… People are different when you… — John Green Copy Share Image
Tiny, the next time that you try to set me up with a girl with a secret boyfriend can you at least… — John Green Copy Share Image
It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real,… — John Green Copy Share Image
I couldn’t help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching them—it was… — John Green Copy Share Image
The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated… — John Green Copy Share Image
What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like… — John Green Copy Share Image
Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there… — John Green Copy Share Image
What can we do?" Mom asked again. I shrugged. But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until… — John Green Copy Share Image
And then we were kissing. My hand let go of the oxygen cart and I reached up for his neck, and he… — John Green Copy Share Image
We are engaged here in the most important pusuit in history. The search for meaning. What is What is the nature of… — John Green Copy Share Image
As I followed Margo's directions through the maze of one-way streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm at the eye doctor. I'm always at the eye doctor. It's like this is my profession. I am no longer a… — John Green Copy Share Image
And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but… — John Green Copy Share Image
And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it… — John Green Copy Share Image
I love making YouTube videos. I love Tumblr, I love Twitter. I love talking with people I find interesting about stuff I… — John Green Copy Share Image
By the way, I've decided to start referring to myself exclusively as 'Daddy.' Everytime Daddy would otherwise say 'I' or 'Me,' Daddy… — John Green Copy Share Image
When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I… — John Green Copy Share Image
Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder… — John Green Copy Share Image
The way we still essentializ, we're constantly essentializing people as merely poor, or merely other, and in the end you can't have… — John Green Copy Share Image
In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is… — John Green Copy Share Image
All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they… — John Green Copy Share Image
Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was… — John Green Copy Share Image
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually… — John Green Copy Share Image
And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys,… — John Green Copy Share Image
The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult… — John Green Copy Share Image
And I vaguely remember her smiling at me from the door way the glittering ambiguity of a girls smile, which seems to… — John Green Copy Share Image
It always happened like this: he would look and look for the keys to Satan’s Hearse and then finally he’d just give… — John Green Copy Share Image
I was so tired of her getting upset for no reason. The way she would get sulky and make references to the… — John Green Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all… — John Green Copy Share Image
But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe… — John Green Copy Share Image
Grief does not change you. It reveals you. And herein lies the gift that cannot die. It changes the course of your… — 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