Quotes by John Green

We left. We did not say: Dont drive, Youre drunk. We did not say: We arent letting you in that car when you are upset. We did not say: We insist on going with you. We did not say: This can wait until tomorrow. Anything-everything-can wait.

I thought: That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.

I thought: We are not close enough. I though: He will not hear it. I thought: He will hear it and be out so fast that we will have no chance. I thought: Twenty seconds. I was breathing hard and fast.

I thought: This is not good. I though: I am not bad at kissing. Not at bad at all. I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe.

I thought: We are not close enough. I thought: He will not hear it. I thought: He will hear it and be out so fast that we will have no chance. I thought: Twenty seconds. I was breathing hard ans fast.

The only person I really wanted to talk about Augustus Waters was Augustus Waters.

The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters death was Augustus Waters.

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.

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

...But theres always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when theres a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. Its the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

Nothings wrong. But theres always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when theres a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal.

How will we ever get out of the labyrinth of suffering ?

How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?

... because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering must be endured stoically, says, You feel what, Tiny?.

Its not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

Suffering is universal. Its the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

Suffering is universal. Its the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

... I didnt know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.

You are a side effect, Van Houten continued, of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.