Quotes by John Green

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Oh shit did you just dis the feminine genderIll pummel your ass then stick you in a blenderYou think I like Tori and Ani so I cant rhymeBut I got flow like Ghostbusters got slimeObjectify women and its fuckin onYoull be dead and gone like ancient Babylon.

The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.

The champagne had been donated by one of Guss doctors - Gus being the kind of person who inspires doctors to give their best bottles of champagne to children.

Mission accomplished I said.Pudge my friend we are indefuckingstructable.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

And that infinitesimal change ripples outward -- even smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter -- maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.

Thats always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because theyre pretty. Its like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

Youre arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But thats a lie, and you know it.

I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

Because youre beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

What? I asked.Nothing, he said.Why are you looking at me like that?Augustus half smiled. Because youre beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

Because you’re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence. A brief awkward silence ensued. Augustus plowed through: I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything.

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

How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked.“Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, Im busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do. WHATEVER! READ! I mean, youre watching CSI: Miami. Why would you be watching CSI: Miami, when you could be READING CSI: Miami, the novelization?

You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting.

Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in books and why your English teacher deserves your attention. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if the author intended the symbol to be there because the job of reading is not to understand the author’s intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as a we ourselves.

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

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