John Green Quotes

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

Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too.

How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

His problems are so huge that your problems can just hide behind them.

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.

[I]t occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what´s cool".

I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what´s cool.

I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, "This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.

Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children.

To die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.

(I didn’t tell him that thediagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)

Chip, she’s gone, ” and he said, “I thought I’d feel her looking down on us, but you’re right. She’s just gone

I know what happens a the end of falling-landing

The problem, of course, is that there's no way of knowing that your last good day is your Last Good Day. At the time, it's just another good day.

Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

If people were rain I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane.

We were just standing there, and her eyes were so interesting. Not in the usual way of being interesting, like being extremely blue or extremely big or flanked by obscenely long lashes or anything.

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

You can’t burn down a made-up place.

And we'll call you...hmmm. Pudge.""Huh?""Pudge, " the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right.

I don't think you're dying, " I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer.He smiled. Gallows humor.

Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’slike to be dying, and (b) not have died.

We care about the dead. We try with our lives to honor theirs. That’s how we make our lives meaningful, and how we make their lives meaningful, too.

The afternoon light brightening the green in her eyes, her tan skin the last memory of fall

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities"- The Fault in our Stars

We are living the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.

She noted, more than once, that the meteor shower was happening, beyond the overcast sky, even if we could not see it. Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds.

Because you’re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me.

I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia.

If people were rain, I was a drizzle and she was a hurricaine

Everything's uglier up close.Not you.

The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed.

If you dont' live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good.

Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time.

My heart is really pounding, " I said. "That's how you know you're having fun.

I am in love with you, and I am not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

Photographs are just light and time" - Aza Holmes

I felt the worry start to snatch at my breath when I finished talking.

Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.

The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her

we need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken

That didn't happen, of course. Things never happenedlike I imagined them.

If the inevitably of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does.

You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us

I missed the future.

... if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.

You put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you

It´s a metaphor: you see, you put the killing thing right between your teeth, you just don't give it the power to do it's killing.