You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It's the same thing with filmmaking... everybody has a great idea for a movie, but do you have the stamina to get good at your craft and deal with how heartbreaking it is?


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I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish" he answered, still kissing me. I laughed.
"I...
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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'...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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