John Green Quotes

Not to sound like a jerk, but Jane isn't really my type. Her hair's kinda disastrously curly and she mostly hangs out with guys. My type's a little girlier. And 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

Keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe... but failing to open the box doesn't kill the cat.

~ John Green

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

~ John Green

We need never be without hope because we can never be irreparably broken.

~ John Green

I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r

~ John Green

I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, I want to go too! I want to go too! And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: We are all going.

~ John Green

Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

~ John Green

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

~ John Green

I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should.

~ John Green

Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom will still be her mom, just as my grandmother is still my grandmother even though she has died. As long as either person is still alive, that relationship survives. (It changes, but it survives.)

~ John Green

You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can't remember, because I never knew.

~ John Green

I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.

~ John Green

It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.

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The thing about dead people... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is... complicated, I guess.

~ John Green

I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

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Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life.

~ John Green

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

~ John Green

I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

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But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take Alaska's genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. There is something else entirely. There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed

~ John Green

Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.

~ John Green

And then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him and out, the scent fading even as I lay there, my chest burning until I couldn't distinguish among the pains.

~ John Green

I don't care if the New York Times writes an obituary for me. I just want you to write one. ... You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

~ John Green

You can't just make me different and then leave

~ John Green

When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.

~ John Green

Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.

~ John Green

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

~ John Green

What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world that so often denies the reality of death and the reality that we are surrounded by and outnumbered by the dead. Here, is a very playful way of acknowledging that and acknowledging that and that always, whenever we play, whenever we live, we are living in both literal and metaphorical ways on the memory and bones of the dead.

~ John Green

She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die

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The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.

~ John Green

Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.

~ John Green

Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town.

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Losing you're co-remember meant losing the memory itself.

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He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

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He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him.

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If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane.

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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive

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Poetry is just so emo. he said. Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

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So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.-- Robert Frost

~ John Green

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

~ John Green

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

~ John Green