John Green Quotes

When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they w...

When you stop wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you stop suffering when they do.

When you're walking home at night, do you even get creeped out and even though it's silly and embarrassing you just want to run home? It seemed too secret and personal to admit to virtual stranger, bu...

Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds.

Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.

Why would you try to kill this guy, Kevin? He's a genius. Nuts to your truce.

YOU WILL GO TO THE PAPER TOWNSAND YOU WILL NEVER COME BACK

You can fight with me, I said. I put my controller down and leaned back on our foam couch and was asleep. As I drifted off, I heard the Colonel say, I can't be mad at you, you harmless skinny bastard.

You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.

You can’t control it, that’s the thing, I said. Life is not something you wield, you know?

You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, the little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that w...

You don't get to choose if you fet hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you.

You don't know a father's weight until it's lifted.

You get all these friends just when you don’t need friends anymore.

You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home?No, sir, Gus said.We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea o...

You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.

You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.

You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.

But even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.

I wanted more time so we could fall in love.