John Green Quotes
He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.
I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.
This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch me—oh, god!
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.
I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.
Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.
Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.
But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.
Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.
The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic
I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.
I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.
You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.
I wouldn't have cared if my girlfriend was a Jaguar-driving Cyclops with a beard - I'd have been grateful just to have someone to make out with.
... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.
She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.
but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers
I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?
He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was.
No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.
You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.
The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.
Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.
I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.
Dear Jane, Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes. Yours, Will Grayson
Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really.
I mean, I am pretty fabulous. Am I not?' 'You're a pillar of fabulosity in the community,' I tell him.
Tiny Cooper is splayed out across the thin carpet, using his backpack as a pillow. He’s wearing skinny jeans, which look very much like denim sausage casings.
Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food.
I have never really thought of him as a person, either.... A guy whose strings were broken, who didn’t feel the root of his leaves of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Like me.
By the way, I've decided to start referring to myself exclusively as 'Daddy.' Everytime Daddy would otherwise say 'I' or 'Me,' Daddy is now going to say 'Daddy.
If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.
Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.