John Green (author) Quotes

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two...

Honestly, I don't even like my type of girl that much, let alone other types. Not that I'm asexual o...

Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time. But for us, it's a little different.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

Tiny is saying, "If you can't trust your gut then what can you trust?" And I say, "You can trust tha...

I think my dad was so fascinated by this idea because he realizedon some fundamental level that he w...

Mia,' she whispered. I turned around. 'What?' I whispered back.She smiled at me a little. 'LEEERRROO...

Which got me to wondering whether it’s possible to learn how to be a person in a world where all the...

I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving som...

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or wha...

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

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. i have to believe that’s ...

I'd pick you, I say. Fuck it, I do pick you. I want you to come over to my house in twenty years wit...

When I was little, my dad used to tell me, "Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your n...

When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again....

She’s adorable .” “How would you know?” “I’m gay, not blind. Her hair’s all poofy and she’s got a gr...

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you ...

She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's ju...

still, what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was...

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.those seem to be the two ...

Not to sound like a jerk, but Jane isn't really my type. Her hair's kinda disastrously curly and she...

I know love is real because I feel it.

I think how much depends upon a best friend. When you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out...

I don't really understand the point of crying. Also, I feel that crying is almost - like, aside from...

Because you're my friend, wingnut.

And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not n...

Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time.

Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia wh...

You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the f...

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

I know what happens a the end of falling-landing

this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separat...

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hou...

Keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe... but failing to open the box d...

you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

Your professional physicist opinion?" I ask.She smiles. "I believe the cat to be alive. And what say...

NO. No no no. I don't want to screw you. I just love you. When did who you want to screw become the ...

Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want t...

But what I want to know is, is there a you independent of circumstances? Is there a way-down-deep me...

In the ensuing silence, I have the time to contemplate the word cute – how dismissive it is, how it’...

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two...

... because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that ...

weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as...

It’s so weird, to know you’re crazy and not be able to do anything about it, you know? It’s not like...

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

Why do writers use symbolism?” Okay, so let’s say you have a headache and you wanna tell someone abo...

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exa...

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but ...

I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more ...

Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource f...

I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're gonna do. I'm jus...

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory.

It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thin...

Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.

this is the rough part, okay? so just stay tuned for the good part. i promise it'll come soon.

Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on ...

I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.

I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. Those seem to be the two...

The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is...

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

We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers.

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods d...

...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for hu...

Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five laye...

Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rat...

All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may...

When you date someone, you have the markers along the way, right: You kiss, you have The Talk, you s...

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

You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.

I didn't know what to say to her - I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto t...

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

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

Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.

We are taught that the hero’s journey is the journey from weakness to strength. But I am here today ...

I am trying to find ways to live honestly and hopefully in the world without ignoring or denying the...

Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.

You don’t get to have an opinion on whether .999… is equal to 1, for instance. It is equal to 1. Peo...

Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page," Radar said. "For instance, while I do think that ...

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 b...

When adults say, 'Teenagers think they are invincible' with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, t...

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

Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.

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

History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens o...

What a slut time is. She screws with everybody.

Great books help you understand and they help you feel understood.

For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something...

I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real...

The opportunity of studying history, is the opportunity to experience empathy.

I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. You could almost see through his eyes they ...

What?" I asked."Nothing," he said."Why are you looking at me like that?"Augustus half smiled. "Becau...

Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than...

Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and tr...

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

We have a bad habit of seeing books as sort of cheaply made movies where the words do nothing but cr...