John Green Quotes

There is not shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.

sametimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them

I lit up like a Christmas tree-Augustus Waters

If people were rain i was drizzle and she was a hurrican.

We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.I do, Augustus. I do.

It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...

humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel

I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and Ihated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them.

And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are.

Everyone wants to leave an extraordinary life.

Thomas Edison’s last words were ‘It’s very beautiful over there’. I don’t know where there is, but I believe it’s somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful

…it argues that true love will triumph in the end (which may or may not be true) but if it’s a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have!

But of course, the universe does not conspire to put you in one place rather than another.

You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to lover her.

if you don't believe, nothing ever happens at all.

While the world wasn't build for the humans, we were built for the world

Some infinites are longer than other infinites

Nuts, arms, stomachs -- they never hurt. All hurt is brain hurt.

This is all so CHILDISH PATHETIC. YOU'RE EMBARASSING. GET OVER IT GET OVER IT GET OVER IT. But he did not quite know what "it" was.

...stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also theonly way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.

The humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show them how we feel.

The existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate.

The existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate".

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 doin

[T]here is something to recommend a story that ends.

All writing is rewriting.

As he read, I feel in love the way you fall asleep: slow, and then all at once.

If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all

You should see it, ” he said. “V for Vendetta, I mean.”“Okay, ” I said. “I’ll look it up.”“No. With me. At my house, ” he said. “Now.

And on some level it walways felt like kids paying at being grown

A sequel that will exist just for us

We have to forgive to survive in this labyrinth [of suffering]

We need never to be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.

We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness.

Some tourist think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a ciry of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because the is always the thought that everything might be done better and again

Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.

Your professional physicist opinion?" I ask.She smiles. "I believe the cat to be alive. And what says my esteemed colleague?""Alive, " I say.

and then I couldn't wait anymore, and my hand was on the back of her head, and then her lips on mine, the cold air gone and replaced with the warmth of her mouth, soft and sweet and hash-brown-tastic

You used, " he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.

...everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

We are not as frail as the strings would make us believe.

I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...

I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.

It became a weekend of reading, of trying to see her in the fragments of the poem she'd left for me.

...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.

The longer I do my job ... the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John GreenIf you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.

... going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.