All John Green Quotes
- Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence Ago
- His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn't even know that guys could turn me on-not, like, in real life Even Know
- I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay? Blow
- That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people. Cancer
- Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was… All
- People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's… Deeply
- And so much depends, I told Augustus, upon a blue sky cut open by the branches of the trees above. So much depends upon the… Augustus
- I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. 'The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.' That's God, I think, the rising sun,… Affliction
- No headboards were broken. Broken
- I don't believe in prom,' I reminded her as she rounded a corner. I expertly angled my raisin bran to accomodate the g-forces. I'd done… Accomodate
- The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. Action
- That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in… Book
- I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar. Inspirational
- When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist. Augustus
- I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary,… Bad
- I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day… Century
- standing in line is a form of oppression Form
- The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes. Bright
- Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon. Fearlessness
- So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost Dawn
- As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean: "Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down,… Anna
- You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little… Alive
- Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin. Amsterdam
- One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or… Ache
- While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional. Action