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“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it 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.”
John Green
,
Looking for Alaska
“My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“Love is keeping the promise anyway.”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
John Green
,
Paper Towns
“Pain is like fabric: the stronger it is, the more it’s worth.”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”
John Green
,
Paper Towns
“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.”
John Green
,
Looking for Alaska
“Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know?”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“It is so hard to leave — until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
John Green
,
Paper Towns
“Some infinities are larger than other infinities”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
John Green
,
Paper Towns
“All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world.”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“People always get used to beauty, though.”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.”
John Green
,
Looking for Alaska
“I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate.”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“Forever is composed of nows”
John Green
,
Paper Towns
“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“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.”
John Green
,
Looking for Alaska
“That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened like I imagined them.”
John Green
,
Looking for Alaska
“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in...”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow...”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.”
John Green
,
Looking for Alaska
“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.”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“They don’t kill you unless you light them . . . And I’ve never lit one. It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about.”
John Green
,
Looking for Alaska
“As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.”
John Green
,
Paper Towns
“I may die young . . . But at least I'll die smart.”
John Green
,
Looking for Alaska
“Because memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow.”
John Green
,
Looking for Alaska
“As long as we don’t die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.”
John Green
,
Paper Towns
“And then something invisible snapped inside her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”
John Green
,
Looking for Alaska
“They love their hair because they aren't smart enough to love something more interesting.”
John Green
,
Looking for Alaska
“But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, this would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“Francois Rabelais. He was this poet. And his last words were 'I go to seek a Great Perhaps.' That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”
John Green
,
Looking for Alaska
“Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortably as possible?”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”
John Green
,
Paper Towns
“The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.”
John Green
,
Paper Towns
“It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
John Green
,
Paper Towns
“The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
“I’ll fight it. I’ll fight it for you. Don’t you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I’m okay. I’ll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.”
John Green
,
The Fault in Our Stars
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