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b1c2d86 We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either. the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
4f084cb As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative. John Green
3a640a4 The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. I could have seen it rain frogs. I could have stepped foot on Mars. I could have been ea.. young-adult ya-lit ya John Green
9fea763 There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what. John Green
fdc56c6 Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die. humor wise John Green
251d8d8 My name is Hazel. Augustus Waters was the great sat-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won't be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me, because there's no one I'd rather have..." I started crying. "Okay, how .. John Green
9c6d47a Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?! augustus-waters gus the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
862c07d The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters. John Green
6c3629e I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel. John Green
6eb351d If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me? colin-singleton john-green John Green
749e6aa The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture. John Green
2e07f25 Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will love truth margo-roth-spiegelman John Green
ac166ba I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails. friendship John Green
5b07206 And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles. John Green
0081335 He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head. words literature reading John Green
1a2eb58 If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless. John Green
ef98ffb Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well. humor John Green
ef852be Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home. pudge looking-for-alaska John Green
f9b4532 You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape 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. present past life labyrinth John Green
37cf7a4 And all at once I knew how Margo Roth Spiegelman felt when she wasn't being Margo Roth Spiegelman: she felt empty. She felt the unscaleable wall surrounding her. I thought of her asleep on the carpet with only that jagged sliver of sky above her. Maybe Margo felt comfortable there because Margo the person lived like that all the time: in an abandoned room with blocked-out windows, the only light pouring in through holes in the roof. Yes. Th.. John Green
3affb4e People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to. John Green
5fef1bf Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start. simile John Green
aea316f The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes. John Green
ba94f83 The Colonel led all the cheers. Cornbread!" he screamed. CHICKEN!" the crowd responded. Rice!" PEAS!" And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER SATs." Hip Hip Hip Hooray!" the Colonel cried. YOU'LL BE WORKIN' FOR US SOMEDAY!" John Green
c37cec3 What matters to you defines your mattering. John Green
020b55d I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them. just-like-me John Green
b9b895f 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. John Green
1adb427 Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could. the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
c63a159 Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does. John Green
524216e At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too. John Green
3b07a16 I've gotten really hot since you went blind. blindness exageration john green
3640572 Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it. story writing eye-contact profession creative-process storytelling introverts John Green
83823c8 After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it. John Green
b9986e4 Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals. John Green
f194cc1 I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved. john-green the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
b7a8b67 If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane. John Green
845798f Your now is not your forever. John Green
a10c7dc I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all the small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. But, talking to you makes me feel like the fan's been turned off for a little bit. Like things could actually make sense. You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that so much. John Green
26bc021 That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without. John Green
84f6016 That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjectival version of the word pedophile? You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are. the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
777fcdb 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.. truth John Green
af0f0f1 And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together. paper towns John Green
e4ca81f I know so many last words. But I will never know hers. looking-for-alaska last-words John Green
ae54811 Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me. john-green hazel-grace the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
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