John Green Quotes

The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars

As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.

The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive.

The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

I love you present tense.

Stupid human voices always ruining everything.

She loved mysteries so much that she became one.

I couldn't hear a thing in the world but you. And it was so cold then, and so silent, and I loved you so much. Now it's hot and dead quiet again, and I love you still.

And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

"I think forever is an incorrect concept," I answered. He smirked. "You're an incorrect concept." "I know. That's why I'm being taken out of the rotation".

That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.

I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while telling it

You can't just make me different, and then leave. Because I was fine before, Alaska. I was just fine with me and last words and school friends, and you can't just make me different and then die.

At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.

Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus squeezed my hand. "It is a good life, Hazel Grace.

You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.

When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life.

To be human is to catch the falling person.

But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about.

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken.

She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.

Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.

Your responsibility is not to the people you're making the gift for, but the gift itself.

All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.

See, popularity is complicated. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about liking; you have to really like being liked, and also sort like being disliked.

dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

Grief doesn't change you. It reveals you.

standing in line is a form of oppression

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.

What's the meaning of life? Other people.

I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.