We had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at that time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.


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

There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Th...
JOHN GREEN
... that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we have to forgive to survive in the labyr...
JOHN GREEN
There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Th...
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
If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But w...
JOHN GREEN
If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions.
JOHN GREEN
If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS...
We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you d...
BUBBA SMITH
Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never rea...
JODI PICOULT
What if you could pick one day of your life, and everything would stop changing, every day would be ...
C. JOYBELL C.
We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. W...
CHARLES E. HUMMEL
We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. W...
CHARLES E. HUMMEL
I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great li...
LOIS LOWRY
When you are true to yourself, you will find yourself more easily able to pursue the things that mat...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Each year comes with its own memories! Memories that make us ponder! Memories that shake our nerves ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, ...
BUBBA SMITH
Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds,...
EVELYN LAU
Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the wh...
TEGAN QUIN
Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
The things of substance are the things that we need to focus on, but they are the things that seem t...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE
Even if things aren't going the way we want right now, we will always get through it.
STACEY T. HUNT
that there are many things that we cant understand. the past. the bad things that happened... and we...
NAFISA HAJI
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION
We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD
When we took control of the terminal ... there were things that were left behind in various formats,...
LINDA KINGSLEY
We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we...
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which w...
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD
Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., ou...
THICH NHAT HANH
We see bad things happening and we do not change them. I have made mistakes in many ways, some were ...
VICTOR WERNET
If You See Things As It Is, You Will Never Know What It Is
SYED SHARUKH
Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live ...
HAIM SHAPIRA
It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so.
FELIX OKOYE
It doesn't boil down to one play. We had other opportunities. There were a lot of things that we did...
JAMIE CREEL
If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail,...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
While we see things moving in the right direction. We're not willing at this point in time that it w...
DAN DIMICCO
And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible,...
CHARLES DICKENS
The secondary played better in many phases. We are in a situation that we are switching things up to...
JOE TILLER
There are some things we could have done better. We could have fought a little harder on beams. We g...
JAMI LANZ
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
I'm just glad we had the chance to go down there and be a part of this. Day to day we impact people'...
JUSTIN MATESIC
Things were looking pretty bad for us at that point. We could have been done right there. But what I...
ARNOLD GONZALEZ
I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things ...
BETH GUTCHEON
The gospel that has been preached in our churches has not been fair to the African continent. It has...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
With time we learn that the things we're better off without have the ability to lead us somewhere be...
ANDREW KENDALL
Why try to have pigs fly
When ducks already can
_
Why try to have pigs fly
When ducks already can
ELLA C.
Jesus asks me to loosen my grip on the things that matter to me. It’s only then He can fill my han...
ANUSHA ATUKORALA
Mani nogurdina lielās lietas un norises. Es meklēju lielās norises mazajās.
IMANTS ZIEDONIS
There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not...
PLATO
He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and ...
JOHN GREEN
was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and ...
JOHN GREEN
But it's not something we would ever be able to do... unfortunately there are many things that could...
HAROLD MITCHELL
I had a great time recording the series. Because it's animated the adventures are endless. We could ...
ASHLEY OLSEN
I just wish we could hold on to that sense of wonder because sometimes we don’t notice some of the...
ELLEN DEGENERES
What we don't often realize is that the rebirth and collapse of grand things do not begin with grand...
A.J. DARKHOLME
If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
We know with our speed we can do a lot of things that other teams can't do. If our offense is not dr...
JAMES BARKSDALE
I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happen...
LEWIS CARROLL
In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way...
PETER USTINOV
It's just frustrating. We moved the ball well and we scored a lot of points, but there were just som...
JOSH BETTS
That was a good way to end things. [Today] is our better day because we have some of our better peop...
GREGG TROY
This is the worst thing ever. If we would have lost and known they were a better team we could handl...
HAZAEL REYNOSA
Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU
An important lesson that we can all get out of life is to make sure that we live each day to the bes...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea ...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
It felt good to pretty much play the whole game. To get winded, get tired, get hit and things of tha...
BRAYLON EDWARDS
We're not into moral victories. Almost isn't enough. We would have loved to win this game. It's very...
BARBARA TURNER
Yesterday afternoon he was opening both eyes and blinking, not focusing on anyone, but we could see ...
BRENT NELSON
When we found out that they were going to close, we had to go out and find another supplier. It is p...
JOHN ARMSTRONG
When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of...
THICH NHAT HANH
We can use electronic instruments like synthesizers and sequencers and things like that. I'm not sur...
CHRIS FRANTZ
There were many things that touched us. There were many times we were so completely choked up you co...
DON HALVORSEN
What will happen if we go to 0 day?
...

Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER
Thus it often is with us, we take a course, and we keep to it, as if we were infallible, and we allo...
G.A. HENTY
Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV.
Not only have we not done the good things that God really wants us to do, but in fact, we’ve done ...
ERIN O'RIORDAN
There are some things, once they are done, that we can never question, because if we did, we wouldn'...
CARAGH M. O'BRIEN
Dale's death accelerated a lot of the safety provisions we have today. Anytime you see your Superman...
DALE JARRETT
Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. T...
STEVEN PINKER
There are so many things to say; so many things that can't really be said.
So much has happene...
ALYSHA SPEER
We need to stop letting things like that bother us. We let (a bad play) bother us too much in practi...
CHARLIE HARPER
As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at pi...
SHEENA IYENGAR
When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE
One of the things that we're trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore ...
MARK ZUCKERBERG
The little things we do in life matter. What we see as unimportant could have an impact on another p...
OUSSAMA HEDHLI
It wasn't surprising that West Vegas played as hard as they did. We could have done things a little ...
ERNIE RODRIGUEZ
In May, we could see things were going from beginning to end, ... But it was a fragile system, and w...
BRIAN LAMB
We're getting better and better each time we play. We did all the right things tonight. It was nice ...
RICHARD ALEXANDER
One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting bet...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN
It did everything we hoped it would do. It was very positive, it outlined for us the things that we ...
DANA EIKENBERG
Where's the motivation to drive stocks higher?. I thought that we could have done better, but there ...
DONALD SELKIN
It kind of got sloppy after that. We lost our focus and we did some things that if we do in the futu...
JAY DAVIS
There's so many things that we could do.
ASHLEY OLSEN
The entire journey of life is lived with energy and we use energy in all that we do from dawn to dus...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
EMINEM
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they ...
MALCOLM STEVENSON FORBES

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
All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute th...
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