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John Green Quotes

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“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Hope, hopeless, broken, inspiration, inspire
“Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.”
— John Green, Who's The Slow Learner?: Adventures In Independence
Tagged: College, Graduation
“Jesus, I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Taking Chances, Do It, Going For It, Adventurous
“Seeing the [Chicago] skyline made him feel what is called in Latin the mysterium tremendum et fascinans—that stomach-flipping mix of awestruck fear and entrancing fascination.”
— Colin Singleton, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: Chicago, Chicago Skyline, Breathtaking Sights, mysterium tremendum et fascinans, fascination, Urban Beauty
“It was kind of a beautiful day, finally real summer in Indianapolis, warm and humid--the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Weather, Summer, humanity, Warm Weather, Good Day, Summer Days
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
— John Green, Looking for
Tagged: forgive, Suffering, Life, labyrinth, Growing Up
“I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel. Young. Goofy. Infinite.”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: Feeling Young, Youth, Infinite, Being Young, My Favorites
“I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met.”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: Wanderlust, Traveling, Love, My Favorites
“I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.”
— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Tagged: Fathers, Family, proud, Parents
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Love
“In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Smells, Smell Of A Woman, Love, Love & Relationships, Smell Of Love, Lust
“You gave me a forever within the numbered days. For that, I am grateful.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“We can’t love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Love, Loving Each Other, Love & Relationships, Crooked Hearts, humanity
“Maybe she was just matter, and matter gets recycled.

But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. ”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Ending, End Of Life, Being human, Death, Impending Death, Falling Apart, Ghost, After Death, Trying To Understand Death, Understanding The Opposite Sex, Losing Her, Saying Goodbye, unknown, alive
“I told him that he was fearing something universal and inevitable, and how really, the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaningless of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Death, After Death, Loss, Understanding Death, Losing A Loved One, Suffering, Pain
“The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath.”
— John Green, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: First Lines, Literature, first lines of books
“The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: first lines of books
“You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
— John Green, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: Memory, Experience, What Happened, The Past
“I don’t think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.”
— John Green, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: Loss, Empty Space, Filling Holes, Hole In Your Heart, Loneliness, Pain
“What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: What It Feels Like To Die, Death, Instant, In An Instant, Fleeting Moments
“When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Trying To Understand, Suffering, Pain, Understanding Pain, Falling Apart
“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Books, Relationships, Love, Reading
“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.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: getting hurt, determined, sure, being sure
“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Touch, Love, Intimacy
“True love will triumph in the end - which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Love, Triumph, Beautiful Lie
“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: beauty, Superficial, Love, Self-Love, Dating
“When did who you want to screw become the whole game? Since when is the person you want to screw the only person you get to love?”
— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Tagged: Love, Sex, hookups
“That's God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost. I don't believe we return to haunt or comfort the living or anything, but I think something becomes of us.”
— Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: After Life, Life After Death, Death, Understanding Death
“The definition of humanness is the opportunity to marvel at the majesty of creation.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: humanity, Being human, Creation, Majesty Of Life, Being Alive, My Favorites
“And then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning, the terrible ferocity that amateurs in the field of suffering might mistake for weakness.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Grief, Dealing With Sickness, Dealing With Death, Death, Illness, cancer, Pain
“What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me.”
— Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: After Life, Life After Death, Death, Understanding Death, Fear, Fear Of Death, Fear Of Oblivion, Oblivion, War, At War With Yourself, cancer
“And now she was colder by the hour, more dead with every breath I took. I thought: That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Fall Out Of Love, Fear
“It was his first kiss, and her lips felt like the coming winter—cold and dry and chapped—and it occurred to Colin that the kiss didn't feel nearly as good as the sound of her asking if she could be his girlfriend.”
— Colin Singleton, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: Moments Before Kissing, Kissing, Girlfriend, Almost Relationships, Young Love
“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Sin, Freedom
“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: Leaving, Leaving Home, Moving On, Saying Goodbye, My Favorites
“Just remember that sometimes the way you think about a person isn't the way they actually are.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Identity, Thoughts, Perceptions
“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
— John Green, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: Quotes, Quotations, Who We Are, Identity, Truth, My Favorites
“You're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.”
— Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Beautiful, Beautiful People, Beautiful Things, Simple Things, Simple Pleasures
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Reading, Reader, Books, humanity
“But you keep the promise anyways. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”
— Isaac, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: promises, Love, Love & Relationships
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