You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.
John GreenHazel GRACE!โ he shouted. โYou did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.โ โAlso Epcot Center,โ I mumbled. โOh, my God,โ Augustus said. โI canโt believe I have a crush on a girl with such clichรฉ wishes.
John GreenI had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields.
John Green