John Green

“The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not.”

“Sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad.”

“But why Alaska?' I asked her.'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut word, Alyeska. It means 'that which the sea breaks against,' and I love that. But at the time, I just saw Alaska up there. And it was big, just like I wanted to be.”

“He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.”

“I don't think God gives a shit if we have a dog or if a woman wears shorts. I think He gives a shit whether you're a good person.”

“The fundamental mistake I had always made - and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make - was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.”

“This is so much fun, but I’m so sleepy. To be continued?”

“A veces, lees un libro y te llena con este fervor evangélico raro, y te convences de que el mundo destrozado que nunca se pondrá de nuevo junto a menos que y hasta que todos los seres humanos lean el libro. Y luego están los libros como Una Aflicción Imperial, que no puedes decirle a la gente sobre, libros tan especiales y raros y tuyos de que la publicidad de su afecto se siente como una traición.”

“Me gustaba Augustus Water. Realmente, realmente, realmente me gustaba. Me gustó la forma en que su historia terminó con otra persona. Me gustaba su voz. Me gustó que tomara tiros libres existencialmente tensos. Me gustaba que él era un profesor titular en el Departamento de Sonrisas Ligeramente Torcidas con una cita doble en el Departamento de tener una Voz que Hacia que Mi Piel Se Sintiera Más Como Piel.Y me gustaba que tuviera dos nombres. Siempre me ha gustado la gente con dos nombres, porque tomas la decisión de cómo llamarles: Gus o Augustus? Yo, era siempre Hazle, univalente Hazle.”

“I believe in hope, in what is sometimes called "radical hope." I believe there is hope for us all, even amid the suffering—and maybe even inside suffering.”

“I'm not embarrassed by my faith, and I'm also not embarrassed by my doubt.”

“Listening is a very rare skill, and in these noisy times, it is more and more valuable.”

“We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.”

“Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.”

“I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, 'I'm busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do.' WHATEVER! READ! I mean, you're watching CSI: Miami. Why would you be watching CSI: Miami, when you could be READING CSI: Miami, the novelization?”

“En los días más oscuros, el Señor pone a las mejores personas en tu vida.”

“El Verdadero Amor Nace de Tiempos Difíciles”

“¿Por qué me estas mirando así?”Augustus dio una media sonrisa. “Porque eres hermosa. Y disfruto mirar a personas hermosas, y hace tiempo decidí no negarme los más simples placeres de la vida.”

“Most loves don't last. But some do.”

“We think that we are invincible because we are.”

“I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts.”

“That which came together will fall apart imperceptibly slowly, and I will forget, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgave her for forgetting me”

“But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.”

“We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.”

“I can't remember, because I never knew.”

“We fell. We got up. We ran.”

“Suffering is universal.”

“I do love you and what else matters but that”

“Whatever, bro. We both had a long day. Too much drama. I'll TTYS." I wanted to ridicule him for using chatspeak IRL, but I found myself lacking the energy.”

“In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." (p. 28)”

“Llegara un tiempo, cuando todos nosotros estemos muertos. Todos nosotros. Llegara un tiempo cuando no quedaran más seres humanos para recordar que alguna vez existimos o que nuestra especie alguna vez hizo algo. No habrá nadie que quede para recordar a Aristóteles o a Cleopatra, por no hablar de ti. Todo lo que hicimos, construimos, escribimos, pensamos y descubrimos será olvidado y todo esto habrá sido inútil. Quizás ese tiempo venga pronto y quizás esta a millones de años lejos, pero incluso si sobrevivimos el desplome de nuestro sol, no sobreviviremos para siempre. Paso mucho tiempo antes que los organismos experimentaron la conciencia, y habrá tiempo después. Y si la inevitabilidad del olvido humano te preocupa, te animo a que lo ignores. Dios sabe que eso es lo que hacen todos.”

“A drink this good deserves one's best posture.”

“It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.”

“but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers”

“It's that there's some people in this world who you can just love and love no matter what.”

“The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.”

“You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.”

“One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for example say you're in high school and you're a boy and you say to a girl: "Do you like anyone right now?", that's not the question you're asking. The question you're like is do you like ME right now.”

“Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any nonsmoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should've gotten more.''Seventeen,' Gus corrected.'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interupting bastard.'I'm telling you,' Isaac continued, 'Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interupt you at his own funeral. And he was pretentious: Sweet Jesus Christ, that kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphorical resonances of human waste production. And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.'But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.'I was kind of crying by then.”

“The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more.”

“Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?”

“You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.”

“The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals will frolic and fight. There will be no lord of the manor, which is not such a bad thing, because it seems to me that people have done a pretty poor job of guiding the biosphere for the last few thousand years.”

“It seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box, that the unobserved is both there and not.”

“In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them.”

“I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.”

“I thought of my dad telling me that the universe wants to be noticed but what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us as individuals.”

“The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.”

“You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.”

“10-5 space 16-5-14-19-5 space 17-21-5 space 10-5 space 20-1-9-13-5.”