John Green Quotes

It was a lame string, for sure, but it was the one I had left and every paper girl needs at least one string, right? (58)

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

When adults say, 'Teenagers think they are invincible' with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably br...

It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine.

I want more numbers that I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I can not tell you thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade...

Me: I refuse to attend Support Group.Mom: One of the symptoms of depression is disinterest in activities.Me: Please just let me watch America’s Next Top Model. It’s an activity.Mom: Television is a pa...

I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should.

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's something you just are.

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

You are a side effect, Van Houten continued, of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.

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

The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rockstar and you think, They'll remember me now, but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) al...

If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.

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

Were she better, or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, ‘The fault,...

And now she was colder by the hour, more dead with every breath I took. I thought: That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lo...

The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without h...

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

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.