John Green Quotes

Las cosas nunca suceden como yo las imagino.

What can we do? Mom asked again.I shrugged.But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until I just kind of crawled across the couch into her lap and my dad came over and held my leg...

Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while.

My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really - which meant I guess that he was still living, too.

What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world that so often denies the reality of death and the reality that we are sur...

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

Please stop, I said. You're upsetting the black Santas.

Issac:I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters.Computer: I don't understand-Issac: Me neither. Pause

It's not because I want to make out with her.Hold on. He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'd just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. I just did...

He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. You're so hot, I said, my hand still on his leg. I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish, he answered, still kissing me. I laughed.I have an Au...

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the found...

Where is my chance to be somebody's Peter Van Houten?' He hit the steering wheel weakly, the car honking as he cried. He leaned his head back, looking up. 'I hate myself I hate myself I hate this I ha...

Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory.

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.

Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.

Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I...

Isaac was still clinging to the lectern. He started to cry. He pressed his forehead down to the podium and I watched his shoulders shake, and then finally, he said, 'Goddamn it, Augustus, editing your...

I did some research on this a couple years ago, Augustus continued. I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if we got organized, and assigned a certain number of corpses to each living...

I'm telling you, Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interrupt you at his own funeral.