J. Green Quotes

But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. - Hazel Grace Lancaster

I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. Those seem to be the two choices. Everything else is just killing time.

As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.

Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous." (pg. 18)

I am trying to find ways to live honestly and hopefully in the world without ignoring or denying the universe´s cold and painful indifference to us.

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even thought they countain most of our lives.

...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. t

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world

She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.

A primary rule of practice is meditation with no objects or anchors. Just concentrate on the breath.

No matter how dark your night, my friend, may you always find enough light to take the next step.

There is always that choice, the light or the dark

But you still need the two: the dark and the light. You can't see one without the other.

She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall.

You make me feel at home in my own skin, and that is one of the greatest gifts anyone has ever given me.

I hear your voice, and all feels rightwith the world again.

Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself.

Forgiveness is a conscious choice to become more liberated and less constrained by the past. This simple act of changing one’s mindset can be the wellspring of tolerance, mercy, and compassion.

So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.Takumi

You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.

...and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth.

He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth.

Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters."Computer: "I don't understand-"Issac: "Me neither. Pause

Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value in suffering.

Maybe I’d lost something. Maybe I’d lost a lot—more, even, than I could suffer—but I still had my own self. And lonesome as I might be, wasn’t no force on Earth or from above what could make me less.

im in love with you and im not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

You get all these friends when just when you don't need friends anymore.

You don't get to chose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.

You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them.

Loss is a part of life, that doesn't make it easy... that makes it inevitable...

Grief does not change you. It reveals you.

(...) and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death was Augustus Water.

I kiss your tear-stained cheeks, tasting the saltiness of a hidden sea of sorrow.

The silence broke:"Sometimes I liked it", I said "Sometimes I liked it that she was dead.""You mean it felt good?""No. I don't know. It felt ... pure.

Here's some simple advice: Always be yourself. Never take yourself to seriously. And beware of advice from experts, pigs, and members of Parliament.

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will. But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all

People always talk like there's a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn't, at least not for me. I remember what I've imagined and imagine what I remember.

I thought to myself how much more welcome a faculty the imagination would be if we could tell when it was at work and when not.

Mister Win-Win says it's always okay to pretend. He says that's the only way to feel happy sometimes.

Mister Win-Win says it's always okay to pretend... He says that's the only way to feel happy sometimes.

when you ARE imagining you might as well imagine something worth while

...being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened - the stories on my mind weren't that funny.

If I have friends how come I always feel alone?

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

Kafir, you have a very complicated problem with a very simple solution.

Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room

My friends are always conscious of what people think of them. As though life is something that has an audience.

It's always thoughts of family that drive me crazy, and it's always my friends who bring me