John Green Quotes

I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.

~ John Green

Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.

~ John Green

Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children.

~ John Green

That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence

~ John Green

There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

~ John Green

To die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.

~ John Green

Chip, she’s gone,” and he said, “I thought I’d feel her looking down on us, but you’re right. She’s just gone

~ John Green

I know what happens a the end of falling-landing

~ John Green

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

~ John Green

The problem, of course, is that there's no way of knowing that your last good day is your Last Good Day. At the time, it's just another good day.

~ John Green

Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

~ John Green

If people were rain I was a drizzle and she was a hurricane.

~ John Green

But I believe in true love, you know? Idon’t believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

~ John Green

We were just standing there, and her eyes were so interesting. Not in the usual way of being interesting, like being extremely blue or extremely big or flanked by obscenely long lashes or anything.

~ John Green

I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that’s hard to look at..

~ John Green

You can’t burn down a made-up place.

~ John Green

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.

~ John Green

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth! to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.

~ John Green

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

~ John Green

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

~ John Green

How fun it would be to bounce on the back of Lidewij Vliegenthart’s bike down the brick streets, her curly red hair blowing into my face, the smell of the canals and cigarette smoke, all the people sitting outside the cafés drinking beer, saying their r’s and g’s in a way I’d never learn. I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I’d never grow old with Augustus Waters. But thinking about Lidewij and her boyfriend, I felt robbed. I would probably never again see the ocean from thirty thousand feet above, so far up that you can’t make out the waves or any boats, so that the ocean is a great and endless monolith. I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn’t see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

~ John Green

Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

~ John Green

This is your war now.' I despised myself for the cheesy sentiment, but what else did I have?'Some war,' he said dismissively. 'What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Graze, with a predetermined winner.

~ John Green

Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’slike to be dying, and (b) not have died.

~ John Green

I would not be dying if it were not for her. I would have stayed home, as I have always stayed home, and I would have been safe, and I would have done the one thing I have always wanted to do, which is to grow up.

~ John Green

And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking.

~ John Green

Honestly, I don't even like my type of girl that much, let alone other types. Not that I'm asexual or something - I just find Romance Drama unbearable.

~ John Green

I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.

~ John Green

I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks. But you're not going to be the first man on Mars and you're not going to be an NBA star, and you're not going to hunt Nazis.

~ John Green

We care about the dead. We try with our lives to honor theirs. That’s how we make our lives meaningful, and how we make their lives meaningful, too.

~ John Green

I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'.

~ John Green

She’s adorable .” “How would you know?” “I’m gay, not blind. Her hair’s all poofy and she’s got a great nose. I mean, a great nose. And, what? What do you people like? Boobs? She seems to have boobs. They seem to be of approximately normal boob size. What else do you want?

~ John Green

The afternoon light brightening the green in her eyes, her tan skin the last memory of fall

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We told Mom about the Anne Frank House, leaving out the kissing.Did you go back to chez Van Houten afterward? Mom asked.Augustus didn't even give me time to blush.Nah, we just hung out at a café. Hazel amused me with some Venn diagram humor.He glanced at me. God, he was sexy.

~ John Green

I didn't know what to say to her - I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

~ John Green

More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someonewho might have loved you back but can't due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against the back of Takumi's headrest, and Icried, whimpering, and I didn't even feel sadness so much as pain.

~ John Green

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities- The Fault in our Stars

~ John Green

We are living the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.

~ John Green

She noted, more than once, that the meteor shower was happening, beyond the overcast sky, even if we could not see it. Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds.

~ John Green

I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met.

~ John Green