When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come… — John Green Copy Share Image
Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got… — John Green Copy Share Image
I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if… — John Green Copy Share Image
I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an… — 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
There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky,… — John Green Copy Share Image
History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Which meant there was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also… — John Green Copy Share Image
Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit… — John Green Copy Share Image
In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is… — John Green Copy Share Image
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent… — John Green Copy Share Image
People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and… — John Green Copy Share Image
So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better… — John Green Copy Share Image
This is what happens: somebody—girl usually—got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down… — John Green Copy Share Image
The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty years there will be no one… — John Green Copy Share Image
Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old. — John Green Copy Share Image
I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to… — John Green Copy Share Image
She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her social worker said I… — John Green Copy Share Image
One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these… — John Green Copy Share Image
Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever… — John Green Copy Share Image
The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals… — John Green Copy Share Image
The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl… — John Green Copy Share Image
And we'll call you...hmmm. Pudge." "Huh?" "Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's… — John Green Copy Share Image
I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the… — John Green Copy Share Image
And then we were kissing.....The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I rally like my body; this cancer-ruined thing… — John Green Copy Share Image
I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that… — John Green Copy Share Image
All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which… — John Green Copy Share Image
Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you. — John Green Copy Share Image
You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two… — John Green Copy Share Image
There are at least two distinct meanings of 'hot': there is the, like, normal human definition which is that 'this individual seems… — 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
