John Green Quotes

You can learn a lot about government from donkey balls.

You can say a lot of bad things about Tiny Cooper. I know, because I have said them. But for a guy who knows absolutely nothing about how to conduct his own relationships, Tiny Cooper is kind of brill...

You can't just make me different, and the leave. Because I was fine before.

You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different..

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

You feeling scared?Kinda.Of what?It's not like that. The sentence doesn't have, like, an object. I'm just scared.

You just, like, hate yourself? You hate being yourself? There's no self to hate. It's like, when I look into myself, there's no actual me—just a bunch of thoughts and behaviors and circumstances. And...

You know how people are always saying your parents are always right? Follow your parents' advice; they know what's good for you. And you know how no one ever listens to this advice, because even if it...

You know what I hate? The outdoors. I mean, generally. I don't like outside. I'm an inside person. I'm all about refrigeration and indoor plumbing and Judge Judy.

You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is.

You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more tha...

You may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.

You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

You smoke to enjoy it, I smoke to die.

You think you're the painter, but you're the canvas

Dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

No one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again. aa

That while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.

There is no best and no worst, ...those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is