All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing.


John Green

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Cover me!' Augustus said as he jumped out from behind the wall and raced toward the school. Isaac fu...
JOHN GREEN
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will sub...
LANCE ARMSTRONG
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will sub...
LANCE ARMSTRONG
They had no enemies. If you knew them for a minute, it felt like you knew them for a year.
ERIC HILL
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I co...
JOHN KEATS
even as each minute seems to take an hour, each hour seems to fly by in a minute.
LAUREN OLIVER
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a mi...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
SMS made everything negotiable: hour by hour, minute by minute. There was no such thing as a firm pl...
SUSAN MAUSHART
All of them here are sub-four-minute milers and when those guys ran a sub-four-minute mile, a sub-fo...
ALAN WEBB
A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
Maybe thats why they hate us.For reminding them that innocence is just an illusion, we're dark and m...
DIA REEVES
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an h...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an...
FRANK FRYE
The concept of a relationship is fucking idiotic, but thats what makes them normal.
CRAIG DEARING
No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot...
JAMES S.A. COREY
Actualize the dreams now and don’t procrastinate them for the future. Use every second, minute and...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
The minute you humiliate people, you've lost them for life.
GREGORY WASSON
Nobody buys them. They find them in the library.
DR. LEONARD ROSENMAN
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for a...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants th...
BJORN LOMBORG
Sit next to a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. Sit on a red-hot stove for a minute,...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day b...
TOM ARNOLD
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot s...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot sto...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
People are stampeding back into the good old names that we all recognize. Familiarity makes them eas...
MARK SCHULTZ
For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
HARVEY MACKAY
For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
OSCAR WILDE
For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
A. A. MILNE
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will sub...
LANCE ARMSTRONG
If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS...
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot sto...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
I don't like people driving faster, that may cause an Accident... Thats the Reason I overtake them.....
NASIR KHAN
In 5 minutes, 1 minute and many other phrases most of them are a lie..., but why do we say them?
DEYTH BANGER
I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize ...
ALANIS MORISETTE
Every minute, hour and hour that passes daily should be converted into product
SUNDAY ADELAJA
His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.
PHYLLIS DILLER
His finest hour lasted a minute and a half
PHYLLIS DILLER
There is definitely more rotation in my pants now that I'm famous. The minute they look slightly use...
BEN ADAMS
Helpless, I clenched my fists against my back, well aware that every mile, every minute that ticked ...
JULIE KAGAWA
But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not wan...
JAMES JONES
Always remember the hankering for the 'other' is never for them, but to use them as a means of your ...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU
It's amazed me as to the outpouring of affection that people have for them, and 100 percent of all t...
BOB BURRIS
That was huge knowing there was a minute to go and we kept them at their end.
JASON TAPP
Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.
ALLY CONDIE
To maximize time is to make sure that every second, minute and hour counts
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Memphis is moving away from us. What was once an hour and 15 minute-drive now takes an hour and 45 m...
BRUCE BURROW
This is why improvisational music and comedy is so inspiring: You are seeing something being born, a...
JOHN DARNIELLE
I wonder if you've got a minute."
I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose...
JODI PICOULT
My bookshelves have no order. I prune them regularly and sell the books to Myopic Books, a Chicago b...
JESSE BALL
I saw Marilyn Manson. He had, like, the platinum grills, and that's when I got my first ones. An...
LIL UZI VERT
Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the t...
BETTY SMITH
the saddest thing is to be
a minute to someone,
when you've made them your eternity.
SANOBER KHAN
Maybe thats what hell is. You go mad, and all your demonds come and get you just as fast as you can ...
ANNE RICE
Convert every minute and hour of your life into perfecting your calling.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
EVAN ESAR
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
EVAN ESAR
And you can bet, ... fans will watch every minute of them.
DON CHERRY
I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs&#...
HALLE BERRY
It's a new minute, a new hour and a new day cherish it !!!!!!!
BONNIE ZACKSON KOURY
You wouldn't know it, from some of the things I've said over the years, but I like people... I do......
GEORGE CARLIN
His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Every minute starts an hour and every minute is a new opportunity. Each time the clock ticks you hav...
SOURCE UNKNOWN
In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting...
WILLIAM STYRON
We want to find out which courses are better on an hour and a half schedule and which courses are be...
DAVID ROBERSON
We met with them on the 13th of September to give them a proposal. One of the things ... that we cou...
JAN ADAMS
There is no way Top Wind can think that I am going to breeze in and buy a flute, so I can truthfully...
JAMES GALWAY
Certainly some of our employees desire the overtime, but not all of them, which creates a need for e...
TOD ARBOGAST
The zone helped a lot. We gave them a different look. We caught them off guard for the first minute ...
ANTONIO DIMARIA
Give me a minute - Am good. I get an Hour - Am Great. Give me Six Months - Am unbeatable.
OLASOT
Don is interested in real people who are damaged and flawed and not always likable the first minute ...
LISA KUDROW
Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, t...
CHANNING POLLOCK
Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but wit...
ANDRE MALRAUX
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but wit...
ANDRE MALRAUX
Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but wit...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
It is brutal - brutal - when you see what happened to them, ... You simply go, 'Wait a minute - this...
EDWARD JAMES OLMOS
You don't have time to meet. We practice every minute we can and then we send them back up the hill.
BERT WILLIAMS
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would ta...
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would ta...
FRANKLIN ADAMS
All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the...
LADY GAGA
Hate me an hour, and then turn roundAnd love me truly, just one minute.
WILLIAM WETMORE STORY
I'm looking at something on my wall. It says jogging 6 miles an hour at 150 pounds is 11.6 calories ...
ROBERT RIZZA
In the first week of the year, we tried to call the number they'd set up for pharmacies and we had a...
KRISTIN CAMPBELL
That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten
people, but the minute...
JEANNETTE WALLS
The thing that hurts the most is that we were ahead most of the game, and that we had them where we ...
JOSH JOHNSON
They actually loved us there, or the ones that I saw. We bought a lot of stuff from them likes drink...
ERIC GUY
We figured we needed to hold them off for at least five minutes. You don't expect them to tie it les...
DAVE FRYER
You should be kissed everyday, every hour, every minute.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Days of slow walking are very long: they make you live longer, because you have allowed every hour, ...
FRéDéRIC GROS
We don't accept panic buying from our customers. Let's say there's a customer that normally buys one...
JEFF MORRIS
I have walked away from friendships when I've realized that someone smiles to someone's face...
SOPHIA BUSH
I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act o...
STEVE MARTIN
Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of peopl...
LEMMY KILMISTER
Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of peopl...
LEMMY KILMISTER
Never trust someone who takes hours to text you back, but when you hang out with them they check the...
ANONYMOUS

More John Green

Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.
JOHN GREEN
The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.
JOHN GREEN
That smile could end wars and cure cancer.
JOHN GREEN
You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
JOHN GREEN
Well, while you were in the bathroom, I sat down at this picnic table here in Bumblefug, Kentucky, a...
JOHN GREEN
you can never love someone as much as you miss them.
JOHN GREEN
There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
JOHN GREEN
He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his hea...
JOHN GREEN
Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again an...
JOHN GREEN
I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours sho...
JOHN GREEN
I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so ha...
JOHN GREEN
True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most...
JOHN GREEN
I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and wor...
JOHN GREEN
Headline?" he asked.
"'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said.
"'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Need...
JOHN GREEN
He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.
JOHN GREEN
Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's c...
JOHN GREEN
Van Houten,
I’m a good person but a shitty writer. You’re a shitty person but a good writer...
JOHN GREEN
Do you have a Wish?' he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the...
JOHN GREEN
Sometimes people don’t understand
the promises they’re making when they make them,” I sai...
JOHN GREEN
I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said.

"And it is my privilege and my resp...
JOHN GREEN
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurt...
JOHN GREEN
Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something.

Hazel Grace, tell me I hav...
JOHN GREEN
What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s...
JOHN GREEN
I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish" he answered, still kissing me. I laughed.
"I...
JOHN GREEN
I have an Augustus Waters fetish," I explained.
JOHN GREEN
Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St...
JOHN GREEN
Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end ...
JOHN GREEN
Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.
JOHN GREEN
There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection o...
JOHN GREEN
He’s not that smart.”

“She’s right,” Augustus says. “It’s just that most re...
JOHN GREEN
All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a tor...
JOHN GREEN
A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heart-broken and di...
JOHN GREEN
I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasu...
JOHN GREEN
Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. W...
JOHN GREEN
Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...
JOHN GREEN
I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.
JOHN GREEN
While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action...
JOHN GREEN
the world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world
JOHN GREEN
Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds ou...
JOHN GREEN
I fell in love like you would fall asleep: slowly and then all at once.
JOHN GREEN
I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with August...
JOHN GREEN
Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted...
JOHN GREEN
Gus: "It tastes like..."
Me: "Food."
Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellentl...
JOHN GREEN
But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassiu...
JOHN GREEN
I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does ...
JOHN GREEN
I love you present tense.
JOHN GREEN
She loved mysteries so much, that she became one.
JOHN GREEN
It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them...
JOHN GREEN
There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the ...
JOHN GREEN
As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean:
"Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner conce...
JOHN GREEN
And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in...
JOHN GREEN
There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was ...
JOHN GREEN
I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.
JOHN GREEN
And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure ...
JOHN GREEN
Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an...
JOHN GREEN
That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjecti...
JOHN GREEN
I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is ine...
JOHN GREEN
I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevole...
JOHN GREEN
Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that i...
JOHN GREEN
If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love ...
JOHN GREEN
We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
JOHN GREEN
I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was t...
JOHN GREEN
there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars
JOHN GREEN
I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't reall...
JOHN GREEN
I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.
JOHN GREEN
Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome...
JOHN GREEN
Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy...
JOHN GREEN
It's not because I want to make out with her."
Hold on." He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excit...
JOHN GREEN
I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying tr...
JOHN GREEN
They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.
JOHN GREEN
Principled hate is a hell of a lot stronger than "Boy, I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown me ...
JOHN GREEN
Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said.

"R...
JOHN GREEN
So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I w...
JOHN GREEN
Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is...
JOHN GREEN
Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
JOHN GREEN
When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, t...
JOHN GREEN
What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
JOHN GREEN
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
JOHN GREEN
Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than...
JOHN GREEN
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I...
JOHN GREEN
Some people have lives; some people have music.
JOHN GREEN
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREEN
As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, ...
JOHN GREEN
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to t...
JOHN GREEN
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc...
JOHN GREEN
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities...
JOHN GREEN
It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities ar...
JOHN GREEN
There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection o...
JOHN GREEN
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
JOHN GREEN
What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
JOHN GREEN
Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about sufferi...
JOHN GREEN
You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the f...
JOHN GREEN
That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pret...
JOHN GREEN
The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember w...
JOHN GREEN
Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory.
JOHN GREEN
Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this."
"Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish....
JOHN GREEN
Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.
JOHN GREEN
You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
JOHN GREEN
We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska t...
JOHN GREEN
Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am ...
JOHN GREEN
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
JOHN GREEN
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
JOHN GREEN
Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew wha...
JOHN GREEN
It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.'
'Right, i...
JOHN GREEN
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc...
JOHN GREEN
Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to den...
JOHN GREEN
I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, ok...
JOHN GREEN
You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All effo...
JOHN GREEN
That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in t...
JOHN GREEN
I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the con...
JOHN GREEN
Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always
JOHN GREEN
It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the ...
JOHN GREEN
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom...
JOHN GREEN
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
JOHN GREEN
Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he h...
JOHN GREEN
May I see you again?" he asked. There was an endearing nervousness in his voice.

I smile...
JOHN GREEN
There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no ...
JOHN GREEN
Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.
JOHN GREEN
The world is not a wish-granting factory.
JOHN GREEN
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
JOHN GREEN
Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, an...
JOHN GREEN
Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but ...
JOHN GREEN
You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!
JOHN GREEN
I mean, we're ninjas."

"Well maybe you're a ninja," I said

"You're just...
JOHN GREEN
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exa...
JOHN GREEN
There are times when it is appropriate, even preferable, to get an erection when someone's face is i...
JOHN GREEN
We were kissing.
I thought: This is good.
I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad...
JOHN GREEN
What the hell is that?" I laughed.
"It's my fox hat."
"Your fox hat?"
"Yeah, Pudge. M...
JOHN GREEN
I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their in...
JOHN GREEN
Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
JOHN GREEN
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
JOHN GREEN
It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you....
JOHN GREEN
Sometimes I don't get you,' I said.
She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the t...
JOHN GREEN
That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
JOHN GREEN
I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassi...
JOHN GREEN
I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit.
JOHN GREEN
I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to us...
JOHN GREEN
Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war
JOHN GREEN
And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall...
JOHN GREEN
Have you really read all those books in your room?”

Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’...
JOHN GREEN
He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, a...
JOHN GREEN
Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why...
JOHN GREEN
It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and fe...
JOHN GREEN
I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.
JOHN GREEN
What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those ...
JOHN GREEN
I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fu...
JOHN GREEN
When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
JOHN GREEN
pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A ...
JOHN GREEN
Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful. And that is a powerful opiate, cert...
JOHN GREEN
I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
JOHN GREEN
When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again....
JOHN GREEN
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
JOHN GREEN
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth,...
JOHN GREEN
[I]t occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, beca...
JOHN GREEN
Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will… but then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing eve...
JOHN GREEN
What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant puddin...
JOHN GREEN
I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a w...
JOHN GREEN
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how ...
JOHN GREEN
You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.
JOHN GREEN
The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, o...
JOHN GREEN
It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.
JOHN GREEN
I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. H...
JOHN GREEN
I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. You could almost see through his eyes they ...
JOHN GREEN
And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
JOHN GREEN
-so if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's wha...
JOHN GREEN
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
JOHN GREEN
You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
JOHN GREEN
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
JOHN GREEN
Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the sid...
JOHN GREEN
What's that?"
"The laundry basket?"
"No, next to it."
"I don't see anything next to i...
JOHN GREEN
Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.
JOHN GREEN
For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and too...
JOHN GREEN
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels -...
JOHN GREEN
I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not tru...
JOHN GREEN
Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his large...
JOHN GREEN
The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tighteni...
JOHN GREEN
Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.
JOHN GREEN
You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.
JOHN GREEN
But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more tim...
JOHN GREEN
How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?
JOHN GREEN
AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.
'So that's Sara,' I said.
'Yes.'
'She seems nice.
JOHN GREEN
The pigs can't stop the fox; I'm too quick,' Takumi said to himself. "I can rhyme while I run; I'm t...
JOHN GREEN
I’m just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.
JOHN GREEN
You can't just make me different and then leave
JOHN GREEN
She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale.
"DO NOT OBJECTIFY W...
JOHN GREEN
But why Alaska?' I asked her.

'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut...
JOHN GREEN
Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better th...
JOHN GREEN
I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
JOHN GREEN
You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.
JOHN GREEN
I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don’t t...
JOHN GREEN
I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or wha...
JOHN GREEN
There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly lear...
JOHN GREEN
Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you�...
JOHN GREEN
I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I ...
JOHN GREEN
If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit,...
JOHN GREEN
If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.
JOHN GREEN
I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like yo...
JOHN GREEN
Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
JOHN GREEN
Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will
JOHN GREEN
I responded to this development with the kind of sophisticated language for which I am famous. "Crap...
JOHN GREEN