I didn't want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus.
John GreenI'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.
John GreenDoes he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands." "No he has kind of amazing hands.
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