John Green

“Interesting capitalisation," I said."Yeah. I'm a big believer in random capitalisation.The rules of capitalisation are so unfair to words in the middle.”

“That's why I said tomorrow, I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.”

“I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool.”

“JG: Ha! I will get him Looking for Alaska and tell him this idea that a human being is more than a human being is a mistaken idea and in the end does no service either to him or the person he's imagining. That trope has become so deeply embedded in American culture, and as someone who writes about young people falling in love, I feel like I can't ignore it, but I try to make it clear that life works best when we think of people as people.”

“O mundo não é uma fábrica de conceder desejos.”

“JP shouted, "TELL THEM WHAT YOU JUST DID TO EACH OTHER!""Um," I said."We kissed," the Duke said."That's kinda gay," Keun said."I AM A GIRL.""Yeah, I know, but so is Tobin," Keun said.”

“Sorry," I said to the Duke."Eh, it's not your fault. It's Carla's fault. You were turning the wheel. Carla just wasn't listening. I knew I shouldn't have loved her. She's like all the others, Tobin; as soon as I confess my love, she abandons me."I laughed. "I never abandoned you," I said patting on her back."Yeah, well, (a.) I never confessed my love to you, and (b.) I'm not even female to you.”

“When Ben unfurls the T-shirts, there are two small problems. First, it turns out that a large T-shirt in a Georgia gas station is not the same size as a large T-shirt at, say, Old Navy. The gas station shirt is gigantic-more garbage bag than shirt. It is smaller than the graduation robes, but not by much. But this problem pales in comparison to the other problem, which is that both T-shirts are embossed with huge Confederate flags. Printed over the flag are the words HERITAGE NOT HATE."Oh no you didn't," Radar says when I show him why we're laughing. "Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt.""I just grabbed the first shirts I saw, bro.""Don't bro me right now," Radar says, but he's shaking his head and laughing. I hand him his shirt and he wiggles into it while driving with his knees. "I hope I get pulled over," he says. "I'd like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a Confederate T-shirt over a black dress.”

“It's a penis," Margo said, "in the same sense that Rhode Island is a state: it may have an illustrious history, but it sure isn't big.”

“We have to forgive to survive the labyrinth.”

“God! I can't stand these fake grievers.”

“God, people like that shouldn't be allowed to live.”

“That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made up.”

“Pudge, my friend, we are indefuckingstructible.”

“People believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.”

“Just spend a few more months playing video games. That hand-eye coordination will come in handy when you get to third base.”

“It's nice to have people who will feel guilty for you.”

“You know what's lame, Pudge? I really care about her. I mean, we were hopeless. Badly matched. But still. I mean, I said I loved her... 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.”

“So Friday? Do you have plans for Friday?" And then I laughed, because the Colonel and I didn't have plans for this Friday, or for any other Friday for the rest of our lives.”

“Shit, if I can teach you precalc, I can teach anybody. like maybe kids with autism.”

“You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me.”

“Me: "Touch the cave wall."Computer: "You touch the cave wall. It is moist."Isaac: "Lick the cave wall."Computer: "I do not understand. Repeat?"Me: "Hump the moist cave wall."Computer: "You attempt to jump. You hit your head."Isaac: "Not jump. HUMP."Computer: "I don't understand."Isaac: "Dude, I've been alone in the dark in this cave for weeks and I need some relief. HUMP THE CAVE WALL."Computer: "You attempt to ju-"Me: "Thrust pelvis against the cave wall."Computer: "I do not-"Isaac: "Make sweet love to the cave."Computer: "I do not-”

“You'll live forever in our hearts, big man.That particularly galled me, because it implied the immortality of those left behind: You will live forever in my memory, because I will live forever! I AM YOUR GOD NOW, DEAD BOY! I OWN YOU!”

“Drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.”

“I know it's a bit self-aggrandizing.""Hey, you're stealing my eulogy," Isaac said. "My first bit is about how you were a self-aggrandizing bastard.”

“I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer.He smiled. Gallows humor.”

“There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.”

“Observation: Standing in line is a form of oppression.”

“But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail”

“Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?”

“It hurts because it mattered.”

“You're not a grenade, not to us. Thinking about you dying makes us sad, Hazel, but you are not a grenade. You are amazing. You can't know, sweetie, because you've never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.”

“Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down”

“Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?”

“You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.”

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

“I mean, we're ninjas.""Well maybe you're a ninja," I said"You're just a really loud, awkward ninja," Margo said, "but we are both ninjas.”

“still, what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? that if he got blue, i got black? that i hated those pills so much, because i knew how much i relied on them to live?”

“I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.”

“And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.”

“He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was.”

“Hay que recordar también que cuando hablamos de literatura, lo hacemos en tiempo presente. Cuando hablamos de los muertos, no somos tan amables”

“No puedes elegir si sales herido en este mundo... pero si puedes tener algo que ver en quien te puede herir. Me gusta mis elecciones.”

“Algunos infinitos son más grandes que otros infinitos, nos enseñó un escritor. Hay días, mucho de ellos, cuando resiento el tamaño de mi juego ilimitado. Quiero más numeros de los que puedo tener, y Dios, quiero mpas números para Augustus Waters que los que ha obtenido.Pero Gus, mi amor,no puedo decir cuando agradecida estoy por nuestro pequeño infinito. No lo cambiaría por el mundo entero. Me diste un por siempre con días enumerados, y estoy agradecida.”

“Vas a vivir tu mejor vida hoy. Esa es tu batalla ahora.”

“El mundo no es una fábrica que concede deseos.”

“Me enamoré de la forma en que te quedas dormido: poco a poco, y luego de una sola vez.”

“Todo el mundo se acostumbra a la belleza, sin embargo."Yo no me he acostumbrado a ti todavía”

“Pero yo creo en el amor verdadero, ¿sabes? No creo que todos deben tener vista o no enfermarse de lo que sea, pero todo el mundo debería tener su amor verdadero, y por lo menos debería durar tanto como su vida”

“Mueres en medio de tu vida, a la mitad de una frase.”