Quotes by John Green (Page 4 of 4)

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

You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was.

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

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.

But the things that make other people nervous have never scared me. I'm not afraid of men in golf carts or horror movies or roller coasters. I didn't know precisely what I was afraid of, but it wasn't this.

We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad.

The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

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.

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

There are times when it is appropriate, even preferable, to get an erection when someone's face is in close proximity to your penis.
This was not one of those times.

She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.

They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.

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

You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.

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.

She noted, more than once, that the meteor shower was happening, beyond the overcast sky, even if we could not see it. Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds.

Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?

One day, you're 17 and you're planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.

I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.

Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.

I love making YouTube videos. I love Tumblr, I love Twitter. I love talking with people I find interesting about stuff I find interesting, and the Internet is a great way to do that.

It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.