John Green Quotes

We think that we are invincible because we are.

And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.

Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity

I mean, it’s stupid to miss someone you didn’t even get along with. But I don’t know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with.

Does my eye look okay to you?

I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.

If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.

When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life.

Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.

She said 'I love you' as if it were a secret, and an immense one.

The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant.

For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.

That doesn't sound like my Margo", she said, and I thought of my Margo, and all of us looking at her reflection in different funhouse mirrors.

I really like umbrellas. It's like, I have a roof! I carry it with me! Umbrellas always amuse me.

All salvation is temporary

But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.

I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then I said that the statue was built not for Schultz, but for us--to remind us how to be human.

But the fascinating and unbelievable-but-true thing about Dr. Jefferson Jeffersonis that he was not a doctor of any kind. He was just an orange juice salesman named Jefferson Jefferson. When he became rich and powerful, he went to court, made "Jefferson" his middle name, and then changed his first name to "Dr." Capital D. Lowercase r. Period.

There is no try. There is only do.

Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'.

That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.

He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace.

Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it.

Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

You're awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted.

There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.

We gotta do something about this frigging swing set,' he said. 'I'm telling you, it's ninety percent of the problem.

Dear Jane, Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes. Yours, Will Grayson

I expertly angled my raison bran to accomodate the g-forces.

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

..there she is, and I am watching her through plexiglass, and she looks like Margo Roth Spiegelman, this girl I have known since I was two–this girl who was an idea that I loved. And it is only now, when she closes her notebook and places it inside a backpack next to her and then stands up and walks toward us, that I realize that the idea is not only wrong by dangerous. What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person.

I love you' really is the gateway drug of breaking up.

Your friendship with her-it sleeps with the fishes.

I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.” - Takumi

Colin Singleton’s distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.

If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.

I don't like reindeer. They seem like regular deer, only more dangerous.

Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?

You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real.

Grateful to be a little boat, full of water, still floating.

One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t end, that it won’t get better. Because it will.

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

Anyway, that was the last good day I had with Gus until the Last Good Day.