John Green Quotes

We can hear others, and we can travel with them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system, like so many leaves of grass. But the game ma...

We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.

What is an instant death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no bl...

When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never se...

When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist.

When you go into the ER, one of the first things they ask you to do is rate your pain on a scale of one to ten, and from there they decide which drugs to use and how quickly to use them. I'd been aske...

When you leave a place, it's best to leave.

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back..

Why are breakfast food breakfast foods? I asked them. Like, why don't we have curry for breakfast?Hazel, eat.But why? I asked. I mean seriously: How did scrambled eggs get stuck with breakfast exclusi...

Worrying is the correct worldview. Life is worrisome.

Ya think you's walkin' on water, but turns out you just got piss in your shoes.

Ya'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly, which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

You can’t divorce Margo the person from Margo the body. You can’t see one without seeing the other. You looked at Margo’s eyes and you saw both their blueness and their Margo-ness. In the end, you cou...

You know what's lame, Pudge? I really care about her. I mean, we were hopeless. Badly matched. But still. I mean, I said I loved her... I mean, it's stupid to miss someone you didn't even get along wi...

You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

You'll live forever in our hearts, big man.That particularly galled me, because it implied the immortality of those left behind: You will live forever in my memory, because I will live forever! I AM Y...

And pulled out, of all things, a pack of cigarettes Are you serious? I asked. You think that’s cool? Oh, my God, you just ruined the whole thing. Which whole thing? he asked, turning to me The whole t...

And we're just chatting and then I'm in the middle of a sentence about analogies or something and like a hawk he reaches down and he honks my boob. HONK. A much-too-firm, two- to three-second HONK. An...

It was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. i wanted to be the last one she loved.