The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.
John GreenTrue love will triumph in the endโwhich may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.
John GreenYou realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
John Green"You are fairly smart," I said after a while. "You are fairly good at compliments," he answered.
John GreenI told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didnโt tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! Youโre a woman. Now die.)
John GreenQ, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole little life, and then you're going to die, and in the last moments, when you're chocking on your own bile in the nursing home, you'll say to yourself:'Well, I wasted my whole goddamned life, but at least I broke into SeaWorld with Margo Roth Spiegelman my senior year of high school. At least I carpe'd that one diem.
John Green