John Green Quotes

On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are.

~ John Green

Why are you looking at me like that?Augustus half smiled. Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

~ John Green

what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us as individuals.

~ John Green

Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park; an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.

~ John Green

You get caught in being something, being cool or special or whatever, to the point where you don’t even know why you need it; you just think you do

~ John Green

The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic

~ John Green

there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars

~ John Green

All writing is rewriting.

~ John Green

As he read, I feel in love the way you fall asleep: slow, and then all at once.

~ John Green

Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.

~ John Green

It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist.

~ John Green

She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me.

~ 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 toward 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

I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...

~ John Green

Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together.

~ John Green

It became a weekend of reading, of trying to see her in the fragments of the poem she'd left for me.

~ 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

Photographs are just light and time - Aza Holmes

~ John Green

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

~ John Green

You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us

~ John Green

This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch me—oh, god!

~ John Green

...getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring.They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afterward you're devastated and they're relieved; it's over for them and just starting for you.

~ John Green

In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt like we were in some place your body can't visit, some place with no ceiling and no walls and no floor and no instruments

~ John Green

Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.

~ John Green

You gave me a forever within the numbered days and I'm grateful.

~ John Green

According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment waiver in his courage, and his spirit soared like an indomitable eagle until the world itself could not contain his joyous soul.

~ John Green

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 with a predetermined winner

~ John Green