John GreenAs a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.371Reading
John GreenFor she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in p… ▶371DeathHopeLife
John GreenWho would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you?371Death
John GreenI think forever is an incorrect concept. ✨ John Green (2012). The Fault in Our Stars, p.167, Penguin371Thought
John GreenHow do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world? ✨ John Green (2008). An Abundance of Kat… ▶371Philosophy
John GreenThe fundamental mistake I had always made - and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make - was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine … ▶371Sadness
John GreenIt's fine, I repeated. And whatever. It was fine. It had to be. ✨ John Green (2008). Looking for Alaska, p.120, Penguin371Hope
John GreenWe Play the broken string of our instruments one last time361Time
John GreenI learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting. ✨ John… ▶372Humanity
John GreenReading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.361Reading
John GreenIt is a good life, Hazel Grace. ✨ John Green (2013). The John Green Collection, p.798, Penguin361Life
John GreenHere's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou ✨ John Green (2008). An Abundance o… ▶361Love
John GreenShe smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die. - Alaska ✨ John Green (2008). Looking for Alaska, p.40, Peng… ▶372Death
John GreenThe real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually … ▶361Humanity
John GreenYou're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it. ✨ John Green (2012). The Fault in Our Star… ▶361Reading
John GreenIt's total bullshit, he said. The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it wa… ▶361HopeLove
John GreenNo, I don’t think you’re gonna be single forever, and also I don’t understand your obsession with romantic love. There are other ways to have fulfilling relationships that can sus… ▶361HumanityLifeLove
John GreenI came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a tim… ▶361LoveTime
John GreenIf I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go? ✨ John Green (2008). Looking for Alaska, p.119, Penguin372Thought
John GreenBut monotony doesn't make for painlessness. ✨ John Green (2008). An Abundance of Katherines, p.93, Penguin351Sadness
John GreenDon't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway ✨ John Green (2013). The John Green Collection, p.697, Penguin362Humor
John GreenIssac:I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters. Computer: I don't understand- Issac: Me neither. Pause351Life
John GreenCan I ask you about Caroline Mathers? And you say there's no afterlife. ✨ John Green (2012). The Fault in Our Stars, p.100, Penguin351Life
John GreenYou can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much gre… ▶351ReadingSadness
John GreenGiven the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortable as possible? What sho… ▶362HumanityPhilosophyTime
John GreenWhat can we do? Mom asked again. I shrugged. But she kept asking, as if there were something she could do, until I just kind of crawled across the couch into her lap and my dad ca… ▶362Thought
John GreenI can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.' ✨ John Green (2013). … ▶351Reflection
John GreenMy head was level with hers as we stared at each other from opposite sides of the glass. I don't remember how it ended - if I went to bed or she did. In my memory, it doesn't end.… ▶362Time
John GreenToo pissed off to cry, I said, 'This is only making me hate her. I don't want to hate her. And what's the point, if that's all it's making me do?' Still refusing to answer how and… ▶373Sadness
John GreenHe let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her ✨ John Green (2008). An Abundance of Katherines, p.150, Penguin351Thought
