Quotes by John Green

All right. The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least Ive got sarcastic company.

Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too.

It’s so weird, to know you’re crazy and not be able to do anything about it, you know? It’s not like you believe yourself to be normal. You know there is a problem. But you can’t figure a way through to fixing it. Because you can’t be sure, you know?

Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.

How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow - that, in short, we are all going.

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

Both my parents are therapists, which means that I am really goddamned well adjusted.

So youve been gone a couple days, Alison said. Hmm, whatd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost. I smiled. You cant go disappearing on everybody like this, Hazel. You miss too much.

His problems are so huge that your problems can just hide behind them.

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.

[I]t occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what´s cool.

I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what´s cool.

The next morning I had Twentieth-Century American Poetry at MCC. This old woman gave a lecture wherein she managed to talk for ninety minutes about Sylvia Plath without ever once quoting a single word of Sylvia Plath.

I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.

Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.

Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children.

That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence

There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when youre sixteen, and thats having a kid who bites it from cancer.