As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and only stupid people could believe it. I actually became an anti-Christian, and very antagonistic.


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It got our attention. Before that, in our minds we weren't sure if we'd make it. It made me want to ...
ADAM GREEN
Even at a time when privacy rights are under attack on multiple fronts, the idea that someone can go...
ADAM GREEN
My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.
EVA GREEN
Towards the end of 'Dark Shadows,' the sets are cracking and bleeding, but so is Angelique. ...
EVA GREEN
The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
DENNIS GREEN
Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.
MATTHEW 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