John Green Quotes

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Grief doesn't change you. It reveals you.

And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.

I do, Augustus. I do.

The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

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

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.

Stupid human voices always ruining everything.

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

Hi, I’m at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube.

It is so hard to leave-until you leave.

That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.

It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.

This star won't go out. And it won't. we won't let it.

The not knowing would not keep me from caring.

Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.

You were clearly not doing your part in the clover search, perv.

"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."

The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.

But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

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

We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.

People believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

"Nothing," I said. "I’m just…" I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. "I’m just very, very fond of you."

There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1.

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant.

Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.

Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa.

Colin Singleton’s distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

What's your name ? Hazel . No , your full name . Um , Hazel Grace Lancaster .

Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.

I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.

Teenagers think they are invincible

I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it.

As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.

Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.