John Green Quotes

Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.

Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.

Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears.

Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really).

The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple.What's a boy to doWhen lies and truth are both sinful?

It's turtles all the way fucking down, Holmesy. You're trying to find the turtle at the bottom of the pile, but that's not how it works.

I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the harde...

Don't make fun of her, the Duke said. She needs gentle encouragement. Carla, baby, we love you. You are such a good car. And we believe in you one hundred percent....Don't listen to him, Carla. You're...

The pathetic thing I wanted to say to him on the phone – but didn’t – was this: When you're a little kid, you have something. Maybe it's a blanket or a stuffed animal or whatever. For me, it was this...

The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves or other people and we just say the truth. For ten minutes. And then we can go back to being...

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. a

That’s the thing about pain, Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. It demands to be felt.

Language buries, but does not resurrect.

That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence

Everything's uglier close up, she said.Not you, I answered.

My favorite book, by a wide margin, was An Imperial Affliction, but I didn’t like to tell people about it. Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you withthis weird evangelical zeal, and you become c...

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

I cut a glance to him, and his eyes were still on me.It occurred to me why they call it .

Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.