John Green Quotes

I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position.

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.

The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have too much cliché wrapped around it.

I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone.

I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.

The miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.

When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone.

The consequences of being un-cool feel so big that a lot of times you end of not finding ways to have open and honest conversations.

It's bad for your brain not to unplug.

I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they do that separately from adults.

Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them, " I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will

Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...

I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..

What about the rest of your life?"She shrugged. "What about it?""Aren't you worried about, like, forever?""Forever is composed of nows, " she says.

It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes-Miles "Pudge

Headline?" he asked."'Swing Set Needs Home, '" I said."'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home, '" he said."'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children, '" I said.

Principled hate is a hell of a lot stronger than "Boy, I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown me into the lake" hate.

He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace...

Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off."Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. "You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.

The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.

We all romanticize the people we adore.

If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

Keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe... but failing to open the box doesn't kill the cat.

We need never be without hope because we can never be irreparably broken.

I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us, as it should.

I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.

I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

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.

You can't just make me different and then leave

Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town.

Losing you're co-remember meant losing the memory itself.

He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him.

If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.-- Robert Frost

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.", Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.

Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked.How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?

I'm telling you, Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interrupt you at his own funeral.

AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.'So that's Sara, ' I said.'Yes.''She seems nice.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.

Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.

That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it.

He really was beautiful. I know boys aren't supposed to be. But he was.

When I was little, my dad used to tell me, "Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.