John Green Famous Quotes & Sayings
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You've gotta pick your battles in this world...

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked.
How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will

I wish I could say I was in it for the thrill of learning, but mostly I was in it for the thrill of getting into a worthwhile college.

For who so firm that cannot be seduced? she'd written.

The right story needs the right telling.

Under the sink, I also found a tub of Vaseline so big that it could have only one possible use, which I didn't care to dwell on.

If people were rain, I was drizzle. She was hurricane.

Holding anger is a poison.
Never regret something that made you smile.
Do not do unto others what you do not want others to do unto you.

Should I, like, bite?

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?

The correct answer is that we are all feeling like we will be happier after an a cappella rendition of Blister in the Sun.

I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with.

It's true that I want to smother her with compliments and true that I want to keep my distance. True that I want her to like me and true that I don't.

I would believe; you would believe; he or she would believe.

The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't.

curvy." I liked Lacey, but I saw Margo's

I want to, like, drink wine and talk about the Middle East or whatever the fuck we're gonna want to do when we're old.

You realise that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you, he said.

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made up.

A pesudovision! You will go to the pseduovision and you wil lnever come back.

In the end, we both lost. So it goes.

Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.

I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen.

In the darkest days, Lord puts the best people into your life

Cornbread!" he screamed. "CHICKEN!" the crowd responded. "Rice!" "PEAS!" And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER S-A-Ts.

I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane.

So much depends upon this observer of the universe

Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou

So much depends on this observer of the universe.

Ya'll smoke to enjoy. I smoke to die.

The Rough Guide to Nepal; The Great Sights of Canada; America by Car; Fodor's Guide to the Bahamas; Let's go Bhutan.

Memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow

But I could always tell in her eyes if she got really pissed at me, and her eyes were still pretty smiley

Maybe okay will be our always." "Okay,

And Private Jasper Jacks awake in a dark, empty room approximately twelve feet square.

Peter Van Houten was the only person I'd ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it's
like to be dying, and (b) not have died.

Hi," I said. "How are you?" "Grand.

for checking the fullness of his bladder.

There is no try. There is only do.

Schadenfreude,' Colin said. Finding pleasure in others' pain.

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

standing in line is a form of oppression

Sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad.

Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?

There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.

By saying you don't care if the world falls apart, in some small way you're saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.

He missed his imagined future.

This one's for Alaska Young!

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

I try to live life so that I can live with myself.

All pain deserves to be felt

I never took another picture of him.

The prank is entitled "Subverting the Patriarchal Paradigm".

If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.