John Green Quotes

That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made up.

People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.

But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.

"You are fairly smart," I said after a while. "You are fairly good at compliments," he answered.

Need is never a good basis for any relationship.

Who would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you?

There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.

I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.

Is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. It was more than that. I know it was more than that.

And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.

He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace.

Nothing to be gained by worrying between now and then.

...It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting.

It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood.

She never liked me much, but she sure loved me

She was nothing but good and I was nothing but bad, but then she died, and I didn't.

Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC. NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few seconds later. I mean, he's blind. So that's unfortunate.

I always had this secret suspicion that I was special.

The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing.

i know he's been looking forward to this--and i know that i've been looking forward to this. but now i have to stop looking forward and start looking at where i am. it's hard.

But monotony doesn't make for painlessness.

Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?

Nothing's wrong. Everything's right. Things couldn't be righter. Things could be less tired. They could be less busy. They could be less caffeinated. But they couldn't be righter.

The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?

I have to tell you man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.

As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.

Love is tied to truth.

Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime.

I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.

There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.

Dying is the last thing I would EVER do!

Well, but you can eat Grandma's cookies. They're not bad for you. They were made by Grandma. Grandma wouldn't hurt you.

10-5 space 16-5-14-19-5 space 17-21-5 space 10-5 space 20-1-9-13-5.

It seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box, that the unobserved is both there and not.

He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.

Sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad.

I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with.

You live for pretentious metaphors.

I love you' really is the gateway drug of breaking up.

I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance.

When people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals

Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.

Study broadly and without fear.

. . . Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.

Nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource.

I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd be doing smething else.

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect.

High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most.

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.