Quotes by John Green

It seemed like forever ago, like weve had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

You gave me forever within the numbered days.

Because its kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real. A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who created the dot could never have imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also. And it seemed like a way to tell that paper girl who cared about popularity and clothes and everything else: You are going to the paper towns. And you are never coming back.

You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real.

I know love is real because I feel it.

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods dont choose us, we choose them.

I glanced again. He was still watching me.Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy... well.

I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species.

Mia, she whispered. I turned around. What? I whispered back.She smiled at me a little. LEEERRROOOY JEEENNKKIINNNSS! she shouted, then spun around and ran toward the Zs in the lighting section.

Which got me to wondering whether it’s possible to learn how to be a person in a world where all the people are dead.

Don’t make stuff because you want to make money — it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous — because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people — and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts.Maybe they will notice how hard you worked, and maybe they won’t — and if they don’t notice, I know it’s frustrating. But, ultimately, that doesnt change anything — because your responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but to the gift itself.

I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.

He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.

Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, its a little different. I dont want to say its more miraculous,...It is though.

Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time. But for us, its a little different.

Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, its a little different. I dont want to say its more miraculous...Our miracle is different because people say its impossible.

I think my dad was so fascinated by this idea because he realizedon some fundamental level that he was not in control of his desires:I think he woke up every morning in his nice house with hardwoodfloors and granite countertops and wondered why he desired granitecountertops and hardwood floors, wondered who precisely wasrunning his life.

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies - Q

This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Dont touch me—oh, god!

And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you cant afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.