All John Green Quotes
- But I could always tell in her eyes if she got really pissed at me, and her eyes were still pretty smiley Always Tell
- But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. All
- And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go… Afford
- I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile. Believed
- Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel. Feel
- You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean. "I'll look it up." No. With Me. At my house. Now Augustus Waters
- You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you. Insult
- To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved. Abandoned
- The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve. Decide
- Maybe this time she wanted to be found, and to be found by me. Found
- Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard. Any
- In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to. End
- When you leave a place, it's best to leave. Best
- But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man… Ask
- We are now as I wished we could be then. Funny
- Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. Alive
- We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. Careful
- I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know? Another Well
- 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 helium balloons. They… All
- By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own… Apart
- The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me, extinguishes me. Alit
- I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then… Built
- My regret was immediate and permanent and useless. Immediate
- The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves or other people and we just… Feelings
- The minister said, “Let us pray,” but as everyone else bowed their head, I could only stare slack-jawed at the sight of Peter Van Houten.… Bowed