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Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.


Frederica Mathewes-Green

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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