John Green Quotes

Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are?

I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.

I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.

It's only forever...
Not long at all.

Teenagers think they're invincible

Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes.

rightly lived - college and job and husband and babies and all that bullshit." The thing is that I do believe

There's not even real *popularity* at my school."
"That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.

I vaguely hoped that someone would come up and talk to me.

I am a giant squid of anger.

All hurt is brain hurt.

As far as getting shy around guys goes it's important to remember that they are people in exactly the same way the girls are people.

That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.

I wouldn't have a career if it weren't for independent bookstores.

Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

I mean, I am pretty fabulous. Am I not?'
'You're a pillar of fabulosity in the community,' I tell him.

2. Gets blood on the first try," I said. "Seriously, that is huge. I mean is this my freaking arm or a dartboard?

Funerals, I decided, are for the living. - Hazel Grace Lancaster

You're so busy being you, you don't realise how unprecedented you are

Oh my god, I am a banana.

You'll find my leg under the coffee table.

Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.

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

If you have had a hard time then pain will demand to be felt

As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.

We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus ...

It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.

Do you guys remember that one time, in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, that we somehow didn't die?

She was much more like a person than other girls were.

Stupid human voices always ruining everything.

You gave me Forever with the numbered days, and I am grateful

I felt so detached from all this shit, all this high-school-is-ending-So-we-have-to-reveal-that-deep-down-we-all-love-everybody bullshit.

We gotta do something about this frigging swing set,' he said. 'I'm telling you, it's ninety percent of the problem.

People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

The thing about dead people ... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is ... complicated, I guess.

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.

Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

Sinking. Sinking, but instead of feeling panic or anything else, I realized that "Please guys, don't" were terrible last words.

Talking to a stranger because it's the only safe kind of talking you can do

I give people credit for buying into consumerism

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.