John Green Quotes

I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.

I don’t mind worriers, I said. Worrying is the correct worldview. Life isworrisome.

I figured something out, he said aloud. The future is unpredictable.Hassan said, Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.

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 hated cranberry sauce, but for some reason my mom persisted in her lifelong belief that it was my very favorite food, even though every single Thanksgiving I politely declined to include it on my pl...

I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them.

I have the soul of a private jet owner, and the life of a public transportation rider. It's a real tragedy.

I jog through the halls and then go upstairs to Jane’s locker and carefully slip the note I wrote last night through the vent:To: The Locker HoudiniFrom: Will GraysonRe: An Expert in the Field of Good...

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...

I thought you hung the moon.

I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.

I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.

I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.

IT'S NOT MY FAULT THAT MY PARENTS OWN THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF BLACK SANTAS.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.

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.

Language buries, but does not resurrect.

Love is not a tragedy or a failure, but a gift.

Meriwether Lewis's last words were, 'I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die.' I don't doubt that it is, but it cannot be much harder than being left behind.