Authors — Quotes

John Green Quotes: 177

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
The Fault in Our Stars
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
The Fault in Our Stars
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
The Fault in Our Stars
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
The Fault in Our Stars
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
The Fault in Our Stars
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
Looking for Alaska
What a slut time is. She screws everybody.
The Fault in Our Stars
The marks humans leave are too often scars.
The Fault in Our Stars
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
An Abundance of Katherines
Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
The Fault in Our Stars
Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.
Looking for Alaska
So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.
Looking for Alaska
Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them,"I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.
The Fault in Our Stars
The world is not a wish-granting factory.
The Fault in Our Stars
You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
An Abundance of Katherines
What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
Paper Towns
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
Looking for Alaska
Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.
The Fault in Our Stars
When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
Looking for Alaska
That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.
Paper Towns
Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
The Fault in Our Stars
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.
Looking for Alaska
I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
Paper Towns
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
Paper Towns
Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.
The Fault in Our Stars
They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.
Looking for Alaska
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
The Fault in Our Stars
…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.
It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.
The Fault in Our Stars
The town was paper, but the memories were not.
Paper Towns
Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always
The Fault in Our Stars
I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.
Looking for Alaska
It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
Looking for Alaska
If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
Paper Towns
I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?
The Fault in Our Stars
Some people have lives; some people have music.
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence
The Fault in Our Stars
What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
Looking for Alaska
You 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.
The Fault in Our Stars
Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps."That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.
Looking for Alaska
You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
The Fault in Our Stars
I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?
The Fault in Our Stars
Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence
The Fault in Our Stars
Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
It's not because I want to make out with her."Hold on."He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'd just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. "I just did some calculations, and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit
Looking for Alaska
At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.
Looking for Alaska
You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
An Abundance of Katherines
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal
The Fault in Our Stars