John Green Quotes

I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. I preferred t...

I don't know whether it was the general anxiety of being on a date (albeit one with my would-be date sitting fivepeople away from me) or the specific anxiety of having the Beast stare in my direction,...

I don't really understand the point of crying. Also, I feel that crying is almost- like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever- totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1. Don't car...

I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost....I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.

I don’t like to throw the L-wordaround; it’s too good and rare a feeling to cheapen with overuse.

I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.

I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all the small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. But, talking to you makes me feel like the fan's been turned off for a little bi...

I get that nothing lasts. But why do I have to miss everybody so much?

I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.

I have an Augustus Waters fetish.

I have to tell you man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.

I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not, Takumi said.

I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that's when you get shot down.

I know it's a bit self-aggrandizing.Hey, you're stealing my eulogy, Isaac said. My first bit is about how you were a self-aggrandizing bastard.

I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.

I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like the sound of Dutch people speaking Dutch. And now...I don't even get a battle. I don't get a fight.

I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took free throws. I liked that he was a tenured prof...

I mean, it’s stupid to miss someone you didn’t even get along with. But I don’t know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with.

I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'.

I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, listening quietly was my general social strategy