What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
– John Green
God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.
– John Green
I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
– John Green
We have this weird thing in the world where you don’t get insulted for what you do, you get
insulted for who you are.
– John Green
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
– John Green
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.
– John Green
At some point, you just pull off the band-aid, and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re
relieved.
– John Green
Thomas Edison’s last words were “It’s very beautiful over there.” I don’t know where there is,
but I believe it’s somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful.
– John Green
Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
– John Green
Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that
looked interesting. So I always have something to read. But there is so much to do:
cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I’ll have more time for reading when
I’m old and boring.
– John Green
That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because
they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.
– John Green
If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
– John Green
“So this guy,” I said, standing in the doorway of the living room. “Francois Rabelais. He was
this poet. And his last words were ‘I go to see a Great Perhaps.’ That’s why I’m going. So I
don’t have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.
– John Green
He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment – because as good as kissing feels,
nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.
– John Green
Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.
– John Green
I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of
saying true things.
– John Green
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
– John Green
Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
– John Green
I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and
sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most
innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was
gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating.
So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were
rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.
– John Green
I can’t tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity.
– John Green
But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people
were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about.
– John Green
“And we’ll call you… hmm. Pudge.”
“Huh?”
“Pudge,” the Colonel said. “Because you’re skinny. It’s called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now,
let’s go get some cigarettes and start this year off right.”
– John Green
People are moody, dude. You gotta get used to living with people.
– John Green
Books are a weird collaboration between author and reader: You trust me to tell a good
story, and I trust you to bring it to good life in your mind.
– John Green
A woman so strong she burns heaven and drenches hell.
– John Green
Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere
you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.
– John Green
“Hold on.” He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he’d just made a
mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. “I just did some calculations, and
I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit.”
– John Green
I’d rather wonder than get answers I couldn’t live with.
– John Green
This is a man who once constructed a bong using only the barrel of an air rifle, a ripe pear,
and an eight-by-ten glossy photograph of Anna Kournikova. Not the brightest gem in the
jewelry shop, but you’ve got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.
– John Green
Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
– John Green
You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world… But you do have some say in who
hurts you. I like my choices.
– John Green
“I know a lot of people’s last words.” It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people
had chocolate; I had dying declarations.
– John Green
What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
– John Green
What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
– John Green
I’m starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It’s so hard for anyone to show us how
we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.
– John Green
You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them.
– John Green
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
– John Green
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re
quoting.
– John Green
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day,
and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it.
You just use the future to escape the present.
– John Green