That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them. — John Green Copy Share Image
the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate — John Green Copy Share Image
Sometimes the way you think about someone isn't the way they actually are. — John Green Copy Share Image
The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real. — John Green Copy Share Image
Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate. — John Green Copy Share Image
There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another… — John Green Copy Share Image
If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love… — John Green Copy Share Image
No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around. — John Green Copy Share Image
The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves — John Green Copy Share Image
For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way. — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said. "And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all… — 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'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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing… — John Green Copy Share Image
No, I don’t think you’re gonna be single forever, and also I don’t understand your obsession with romantic love. There are other… — 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
I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that… — John Green Copy Share Image
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
Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all… — John Green Copy Share Image
We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very… — John Green Copy Share Image
There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze. — John Green Copy Share Image
The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve. — John Green Copy Share Image
It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like… — John Green Copy Share Image
Its almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person… — John Green Copy Share Image
That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of… — 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
