Who was it that hurt you,
stole light out of your eyes?
Cut a hole in your heart
and let the love drain dry?
Who was so damn careless,
to leave you with such scars?
Where will you find healing?
Right here, within my arms.


John Mark Green

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The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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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