J. Green Quotes

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.

I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

There is no try. There is only do.

there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars

As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.

You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.

She loved mysteries so much that she became one.

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

It is so hard to leave-until you leave.

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.

I was struggling man. I had a stomach ache. I was throwing up, I was just feeling bad. I couldn't sleep.

standing in line is a form of oppression

Like most artists, I live out of a suitcase.

One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.

Last night I was struggling with a stomach ache, but [the trainer] gave me some medicine, an IV and I felt good out there today.

I do, Augustus. I do.

I like to have fun. I'm definitely sexually liberated and all that good stuff.

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

"And we'll call you... hmmm. Pudge." "Huh?" "Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right."

A good deed is the best prayer.

That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.

My style is ambiguous and lucid.

It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.

We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.

The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive.

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use.

All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.

It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me.

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

I couldn't hear a thing in the world but you. And it was so cold then, and so silent, and I loved you so much. Now it's hot and dead quiet again, and I love you still.

If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped.

I'm a dark blonde, yes. I dyed my hair blue, then black, when I was 14. I thought the colour was more flattering and matched my skin tone. I don't think I'd ever change back unless it was for a film.