John Green Quotes
John Green Quote of the day
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.
The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic
I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?
Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.
This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch me—oh, god!
Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.
The problem, of course, is that there's no way of knowing that your last good day is your Last Good Day. At the time, it's just another good day.
...stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also theonly way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.
As he read, I feel in love the way you fall asleep: slow, and then all at once.
I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...
It became a weekend of reading, of trying to see her in the fragments of the poem she'd left for me.
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. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner
I want to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving
You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us
It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes
Headline?" he asked."'Swing Set Needs Home, '" I said."'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home, '" he said."'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children, '" I said.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.
AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.'So that's Sara, ' I said.'Yes.''She seems nice.
I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.
Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music.
On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are.
We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.
I just want to domething that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.
...there are books...which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees-breaking up isn't something that gets done to you
...being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.
I fear oblivion' he said. "I fear it like a proverbial blind man fears the dark
And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.