John Green — Quotes from Author's Books

My thoughts are star I cannot fathom into constellations.

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.

Maybe okay will be our always.

“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.”

If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

Pain wants to be felt.

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.

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.

There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow — that, in short, we are all going.

It is so hard to leave — until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the convenience store. Everyone demented with mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I`ve lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

And maybe by imaging these futures we can make them real., and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

What a treacherous thing to think a person is more than a person.