John Green Quotes

The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.

The problem exactly is that she dumped me. That I'm alone. Oh my God, I'm alone again. And not only that, but I'm a total failure in case you haven't noticed. I'm washed up. I'm former. Formerly the b...

There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed.

There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when they...

You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean look at it Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all th...

You're so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

It is the nature of stars to cross

The afterlife mattered to me. Heaven and hell and reincarnation. As much as I wanted to know how Alaska had died, I wanted to know where she was now, if anywhere.

The point is that there are always answers.

Weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.

Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just wan...

It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and...

The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters' death was Augustus Waters.

Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Ala...

Being gay is not an excuse for being a dick.

But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?

El amanecer brilla en sus ojos, que se pierden

How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts.

I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and...