John Green Quotes

Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.

Right. I'd forgotten about her.' He shook his head. 'That keeps happening.

I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green

I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance.

The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny.

Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people.

But it was only hot outside, and generally I only walked outside between one air-conditioned place to another.

I'm not asexual. I'm arelationshipal.

No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression?

maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.

the point is that there are always answers.

it was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. i wanted to be the last one she loved.

memories fall apart too.

moms aren’t the best audience for medication humor.

Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else

Why is it upset? Shouldn't it be downset?

The light filtered throught the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow.

Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy.

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt

How can you seperate those things though? The people are the place is the people.

The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.

I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.

A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window.

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.

Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.

In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.

I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.

For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.

Margo says, "I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right.

The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not.

Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?

Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down

I make a gesture that is intended to convey, "Hey, no hurry, talk as long as you'd like," and probably actually conveys, "Hey, look at me! I have spastic hands.

Random questions are the least random of all questions.

You can't dingleberry that! That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry!

And I wrote my way out of the labyrinth.

It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.

If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.

Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really.

feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.

What happened?" "During the kiss?" "No, with you and Caroline." "Oh," he said. And then after a second, "Caroline is no longer suffering from personhood.

I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that's hard to look at.

Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really).

I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest. “Hazel Grace. No. I will grant you that you did spend my one and only Wish, but you did not spend it on him. You spent it on us.

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.

my lungs sucked at being lungs.

I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I wanted it to be just me and just him.

I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.