Quotes by John Green

You dont get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

Most parents dont know really their children.

But mothers lie. Its in the job description.

Right, except Im not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?

Its like she thinks my job is to please her, and that should be my dearest wish, and when I dont please her - I get shut out.

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.

Whats that?The laundry basket?No, next to it.I dont see anything next to it.Its my last shred of dignity. Its very small.

Its hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and thats what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didnt exist.

It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes

I am a grenade, I said again. I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because theres nothing I can do about hurting you: Youre too invested, so just please let me do that, okay?Im going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? Im fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while.

I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.

People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn’t bare the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn’t bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn’t even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn’t bear not to.

Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing.

Cousin-screwing. It is not totally safe. It raises the risk of birth defects slightly. But I was reading in a book for history that theres, like, a 99.9999 percent chance that at least one of your great-great-great-grandparents married first cousin.

I always like routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.

...getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring.They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; its always them and its never you; and afterward youre devastated and theyre relieved; its over for them and just starting for you.

this is why we call people exes, I guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. its too easy to see an X as a cross-out. its not, because theres no way to cross out something like that. the X is a diagram of two paths.

When adults say, Teenagers think they are invincible with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they dont 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.

When adults say, Teenagers think they are invincible with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they dont 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.

I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now.