Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."
[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]
John Green
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JOHN GREEN Why I Cannot Relate
"What do you think of this piece?" Someone will ask
About some w...
KYLEE CARRIER If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about...
SCOTT LYNCH Well, Son, I tell you, life for me aint been no crystal stair.
Its been hard and bare and rough p...
LANGSTON HUGHES What do you want from me?" he asks.
What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell hi...
MELINA MARCHETTA Dont GiVe UP iF U StIll WaNna TrY*
DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry
DON'T SET...
TRENT REZNOR Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretend...
GEORGE SAND I want to hurt you.
I want to own you.
I want to devour you.
I want to make you mine....
PEPPER WINTERS I wish you were a mind-reader. I want you
to know everything but I don't want to have
to t...
LISA KLEYPAS I am Cheif Oduduwa. I can cast a spell on your behalf regarding a relationship, your financial situa...
CHIEF ODUDUWA I am Cheif Oduduwa. I can cast a spell on your behalf regarding a relationship, your financial situa...
CHIEF ODUDUWA I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From wait...
PABLO NERUDA You've never been in love?
Not even close.
And no ones ever in love with you?
Men always...
JAMES FREY I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough
to make every moment holy.
I am too ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON Do you know how some people can do anything?”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, you tel...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You want to beat Peter?" she asked
"No," he answered
"Beat the buggers. Then come home an...
ORSON SCOTT CARD What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?'
Be yourself,...
ORHAN PAMUK I love you so much
I want to share you
with yourself.
I know you do not insist
KAMAND KOJOURI I can cast a spell on your behalf regarding a relationship, your financial situation, future events,...
CHIEF ODUDUWA I want to have the heart and mind of a queen,” she whispered. “I want it more than anything. But...
KRISTIN CASHORE My story. I inherited it.”
“I think I’d rather inherit money than a story.”
“I h...
TIFFANY REISZ It's so hard to express yourself.'
I understand this.'
I want to express myself.'
Th...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?"
"Nothing. It was jus...
BRANDON SANDERSON I have something to tell you."
"How, you have something to tell me?"
"You have...
STEVEN BRUST You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know."
"Nonsense," he said. "You just have to...
BRANDON SANDERSON Who is it?" I asked teasingly
"Bigfoot," Dex answered from his room.
"What do you want, Mr...
KARINA HALLE -Do you want me to leave?
-Yes
-Do you want me to stay?
-Yes
-Do you love me? MALAK EL HALABI What I want from you is simple. I want today only.
If it’s laughter, I want it. If it�...
D. LOVE THE INVITATION
by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
It doesn't interest me what you do for a li...
ORIAH MOUNTAIN DREAMER Having someone do certain things for you is like getting someone to chew your food for you.
ZE FRANK What do you want Phoenix?"
"I'm going away for a while. I wanted to say goodbye." He smiled, bu...
JESSICA SHIRVINGTON You enjoyed it. It made you feel alive. You were looking kind of green."
You bastard....
ILONA ANDREWS As you explore new opportunities and new directions, consider this:
• How do I want to make a...
JULIE CONNOR Sara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me?"
"I want to look at you and remember wha...
JODI PICOULT People want to do business with you because of 'who you are' and 'what you stand for'... not because...
ANOUK PAPPERS & MAARTEN SCHäFER O God, early in the morning I cry to you.
Help me to pray and gather my thoughts to you, I cannot...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER If you are doing what everyone else is doing, you are doing something wrong. Why? Because most peopl...
ANDY ANDREWS Good Evening , Sir John. I hope that you will accept a little gift from me.'
I should be honore...
PHILIPPA GREGORY Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?'
'Sometimes.'
'So why don't you do so...
LAUREN OLIVER The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about...
OPRAH WINFREY i do not want to have you
to fill the empty parts of me
i want to be full on my own
<...
RUPI KAUR The mirror image of suffering is the truth. Try it. Change the story. Change the course of your enti...
MARTHA N. BECK What are you doing?" Damen's breath
was shaky.
"What am I doing? You are not very C.S. PACAT She resolved every day to:
1. Do something for someone else.
2. Do something for mys...
MARCI SHIMOFF We women, me and you. Tell me something real. Don’t just say I’m grown and ought to know. I don�...
TONI MORRISON Internet: What do you want for your birthday?
Virtual Cole: to stay young forever
Co...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER L: You want me just to be your... friend?
E: You want the truth? I think you're my guardi...
SOPHIE KINSELLA Questions, I've got some questions
I want to know you
But what if I could ask you only one...
JACK JOHNSON Can you hear my heart? I want to ask him.
I want you to make a list of all you...
TAHEREH MAFI (a quote from a survivor)
Read up on the psychology of abuse. Listen to music. Being alone to p...
SHAHIDA ARABI This is a bad story.”
“Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.”
“N...
EMMA DONOGHUE Darling,
You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I ...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER My mother tells me
that when I meet someone I like,
I have to ask them three questions: CAITLYN SIEHL Harry’s letter to his daughter:
If I could give you just one thing, I’d want it to be...
HARRY BROWNE You know what?” His breath was warm against my cheek. “There are a lot of stupid things to do, b...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT To express is to drive.
And when you want to give something presence,
you have to consult n...
LOUIS KAHN I see sarcastic and obscene visions of angels and demons
flirting with the souls of men creatin...
E.C. LEMUS I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I said. JOHN IRVING Negative Thoughts, Actions
and Deeds Create Emotions,
and these Emotions WILL
EAT YOU...
ALLAN RUFUS Wish You Were Here
So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys...
ROGER WATERS It's a long story. Want a refill?"
"No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?"
"Right...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You possess other people's...bodies."
He accepted that statement with a nod.
"...
BECCA FITZPATRICK Wish You Were Here"
So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain....
PINK FLOYD Aim for something Rosie, I know you don’t want to hear it, but it will
help. Aim for what you...
CECELIA AHERN So, what are you doing tonight?"
Me?" Janie laughs. "Homework, of course."
You want compan...
LISA MCMANN You're my sister," he said finally. "My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you"�...
CASSANDRA CLARE Rockabye Baby, in the treetop
Dont you know a treetop
is no safe place to rock?
And who ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Rockabye Baby, in the treetop
Dont you know a treetop
is no safe place to rock?
And w...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with.
Tell me why you loved...
ANDREA GIBSON From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrat...
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI A selection of quotes from The Night of Harrison Monk’s Death (Jane Hetherington's Adventures in D...
NINA JON I know this sounds incredibly lame,
but I don't want losing my virginity
to feel like I'm ...
SONYA SONES We’re all scared.
Yes, all of us. I’m afraid every day. If I’m not afraid, I must n...
RICHIE NORTON Do you want a cookie?
- What?
- A cookie. Like an Oreo. Do you want one?
- No.
-...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Is this some kind of joke?"
"That's for me to know and you to find out."
"Mayb...
KURT VONNEGUT Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on whe...
LEWIS CARROLL Kiera Michelle Allen, my life was empty before you stepped into it. I thought I had everything I nee...
S.C. STEPHENS The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following:
1....
JODI PICOULT People always ask me
"Son what does it take
To reach out and touch your dreams?"
To t...
TIM MCGRAW I am clumsy, drop glasses and get drunk on Monday afternoons. I read Seneca and can recite Shakespea...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON If you really want to do something,
you will.
If not now,
Eventually.
VANSHIKA DHYANI 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer
Write.
Write more.
Write even more.
W...
BRIAN CLARK When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; but when I prevent you fr...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to ...
LAUREN OLIVER I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to ...
LAUREN OLIVER Lermontov: Why do you want to dance?
Vicky: Why do you want to live?
Lermontov: Well, I do...
THE RED SHOES I yet beseech your majesty,--
If for I want that glib and oily art,
To speak and purpose n...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You must tell me about it when you do,' she said. 'When you make love for the first time, I mean. I ...
RUPERT THOMSON Keller: You've got a business here, what the hell is this?
Chris: The business! The busin...
ARTHUR MILLER Is there a problem, Ms. Parker? Something you want to say to me?" Reaching for his tie, he began to ...
RACHAEL WADE Exploring is one of my favorite things to do, but I don't really want to be in a tour group. I l...
TIA MOWRY So you intend to go through life never loving anyone? Just … things?”
“No. I’m looking ...
RENEE AHDIEH I'm only trying to pull my own weight. I don't want to be a liability.'
She reached out, smili...
MICHELLE ZINK Noah: Would you just stay with me?
Allie: Stay with you? What for? Look at us, we're already fi...
NICHOLAS SPARKS But I don't want some pretty face
To tell me pretty lies
All I want is someone to believe.
BILLY JOEL I like the story writing process. I usually use someone who has been trained for structure to take t...
CURTIS JACKSON I look at you
And I want to build things
Four walls
A roof
A room with a view JOSé N. HARRIS How everyone is struggling for something. Trying to keep the balance.
Struggling to find...
ASH PARSONS I didn't have a motive. I didn't to it. You did. What are you writing?"
"Motive...
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JOHN GREEN That smile could end wars and cure cancer.
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JOHN GREEN you can never love someone as much as you miss them.
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JOHN GREEN I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so ha...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 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