John Green Quotes

If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world.

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

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.

I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.

I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.

The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't.

At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.

Everything that comes together falls apart.

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

I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.

Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.

The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.

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

True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes.

And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking.

How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?

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

I don't believe in prom,' I reminded her as she rounded a corner. I expertly angled my raisin bran to accomodate the g-forces. I'd done this before.

The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!

There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.

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

You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean. "I'll look it up." No. With Me. At my house. Now

Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause

...whatever you're worried about, you're bigger than the worries.

Life works best when we think of people as people.

I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.

depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.

Life has become the future.

Stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.

We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?

I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially-fraught free throws.

Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story.

Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn’t unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn’t want to.

I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.

You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.

I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.