“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”
— John Green“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war”
— John Green“I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.”
— John Green“There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.”
— John Green“Imagine others complexly.”
— John Green“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
— John Green“Love is keeping the promise anyway.”
— John Green“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”
— John Green“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
— John Green“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.”
— John Green“Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.”
— John Green“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”
— John Green“I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..”
— John Green“I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.”
— John Green“I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.”
— John Green“Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.”
— John Green“People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.”
— John Green“What the hell is that? I laughed.It's my fox hat.Your fox hat?Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat.Why are you wearing your fox hat? I asked.Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.”
— John Green“Dude, I don’t want to talk about Lacey’s prom shoes. And I’ll tell you why: I have this thing that makes me really uninterested in prom shoes. It’s called a penis.”
— John Green“I figured something out, he said aloud. The future is unpredictable.Hassan said, Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.”
— John Green“Sometimes people don’t understandthe promises they’re making when they make them,” I said.Isaac shot me a look. “Right, of course.But you keep the promise anyway. That’swhat love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don’t you believe in true love?”
— John Green“I just think if you don't the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I-”
— John Green“Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.”
— John Green“Reading someone's poetry is like seeing them naked -Davis Pritchett”
— John GreenGrief does not change you. It reveals you.
— John GreenThere is no Them. There are only facets of Us.
— John GreenSometimes, to avoid the pain of living, we suppress our emotions and become emotionless. It is a shield, not a choice.
— John Green“The windows of my soul I throwWide open to the sun.”
— John Greenleaf Whittier