John Green Quotes

So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her. I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.

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.

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.

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.

Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die?

By the power of the superglue beer sword, I designate you my driver!

We imagine people as animals or gods. -But she was just a person, a girl.

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

Shame about how we’re gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It’s the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is “sodomy’’.

We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.

Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time

I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'.

I expertly angled my raison bran to accomodate the g-forces.

I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural.

Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food.

We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love.

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.

All sorts of yayness floods my brain. Love is such a drug.

I mean, I am pretty fabulous. Am I not?' 'You're a pillar of fabulosity in the community,' I tell him.

Dear Jane, Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes. Yours, Will Grayson

This is the Homosexuality Is An Abomination Club, right?

We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.

So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.

Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.

The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.

This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories.

But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?

People are different when you can smell them and look up close, you know?

We kiss. Her hands are freezing on my face, and she tastes like coffee and the smell of the onion is still stuck in my nose, and my lips are all dry from the endless winter. And it's awesome.

They belong to their readers now, which is a great thing–because the books are more powerful in the hands of my readers than they could ever be in my hands.

Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it.

Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.

Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper

My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.

C'mon Pudge. I'm teasing. You have to be tough. I didn't know how bad it was-- and I'm sorry, and they'll regret it-- but you have to be tough.

And then I was asleep. That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep, that sleep that is not particularly restful but difficult to wake up from all the same.

I choose the labyrinth.

He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.

They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.

I don't really care how people read. I care if people read.

Truth resists simplicity.

Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people.

Ben's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally.

I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.

It's fine," I repeated. And whatever. It was fine. It had to be.

I was thinking about this girl you love so much," she said, "And this place I love so much. And how that happens. How you can just fall into it.

I think maybe I know why,' she finally said. 'Why?' 'Maybe all the strings inside him broke,' she said.

She never acted as if she liked him all that much, but then she never acted as if she liked anyone all that much.