John Green

“If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know?”

“Stupid human voices always ruining everything.”

“it is the nature of stars to cross”

“I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.”

“but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever.”

“Television is a passivity.”

“The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.”

“Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told.”

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

“I stood under the awning for a moment, but finally I decided that being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.”

“I vaguely hoped that someone would come up and talk to me.”

“I wouldn't have cared if my girlfriend was a Jaguar-driving Cyclops with a beard - I'd have been grateful just to have someone to make out with.”

“Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.”

“The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.”

“I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.”

“I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.”

“I have guts, just not when it counts.”

“I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met.”

“It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.”

“I hated being careful, too - or wanted to, at least.”

“I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'.”

“Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich”

“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.”

“Caroline is no longer sufffering from personhood.”

“The light filtered throught the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow.”

“Why is it upset? Shouldn't it be downset?”

“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.”

“He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.”

“Things never happened like I imagined them" - Pudge (Looking For Alaska)”

“We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?”

“But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling, the waves tossing me against the rocks then pulling me back out to sea so they could launch me again into the jagged face of the cliff, leaving me floating faceup on the water, undrowned.”

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

“And I wrote my way out of the labyrinth.”

“Poor Pudge. Oh, poor poor Pudge. Do you want me to climb into bed with you and cuddle?""Well since you're offering--""NO! UP! NOW!”

“We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim - as you will be - of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible.”

“Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else”

“It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I just looked at him and let him look at me until he nodded, lips pursed and turned away, placing the side of his head against the window.”

“What's the meaning of life? Other people.”

“It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy.”

“The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.”

“If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd just let myself be trampled to death by the Satan Pig.”

“We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?”

“We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone.”

“You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.”

“He missed that, too, and it hadn't even happened.”

“Funerals...are for the living.”

“And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.”

“memories fall apart too.”

“the point is that there are always answers.”

“If I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?”