John-green Quotes

I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

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

Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.

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

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

If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane.

It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes

Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth ...

He shook his head, just looking at me. - "What?" I asked.- "Nothing" he said.- "Why are you looking ...

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

All writing is rewriting.

This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Plea...

Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even...

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

You get caught in being something, being cool or special or whatever, to the point where you don’t e...

...getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring.They want to stay friends; they feel smothe...

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

...being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I c...

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive

AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.'So that's Sara,' I said.'Yes.''She seems nice.

I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassi...

On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in t...

But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can'...

Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know...

A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metap...

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

She loved so much misteries tha she became one

I think the future deserves our faith. But it is hard to argue with Emily Dickinson.

pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A ...

Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diam...

It became a weekend of reading, of trying to see her in the fragments of the poem she'd left for me.

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just kee...

...there are books...which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that adv...

The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet a...

It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, an...

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

Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact th...

Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.

Why are you looking at me like that?"Augustus half smiled. "Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy lookin...

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side ef...

The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmente...

Love"I'm in love with you," he said quietly."Augustus,"I said."I am," he said. He was staring at me,...

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

I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevi...

what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- ...

Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end ...

I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody c...

Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as ...

As he read, I feel in love the way you fall asleep: slow, and then all at once.

Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. W...

Fights were recounted, battles won amid wars sure to be lost; hope was clung to; families were both ...

According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did...

My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart ar...

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

The problem, of course, is that there's no way of knowing that your last good day is your Last Good ...

Headline?" he asked."'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said."'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Hom...

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc...

I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasu...

There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was ...

I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was t...

Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...

And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in...

You gave me a forever within the numbered days and I'm grateful.

I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't reall...

In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt ...

Photographs are just light and time" - Aza Holmes

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

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...