Quotes by John Green

“The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasnt over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one.”

“Maybe Okay will be our always...”

“I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Guss parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.”

“Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.”

“It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.”

“Its not how you die. Its who you die.”

“We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didnt matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. Its quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”

“You cant just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and Im sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I dont even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I cant remember, because I never knew.”

“I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. You could almost see through his eyes they were so blue. There will come a time, I said, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed for that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. ”

“Love is keeping the promise anyway.”

“Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I dont want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, were trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called peoples rotten lots in life.”

“I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.”

“My whole life I though I was the star of an overly earnest romance movie, and it turns out I was in a goddamned buddy comedy all along.”

“She noted, more than once, that the meteor shower was happening, beyond the overcast sky, even if we could not see it. Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds.”

“You cant just make me different and then leave”

“Not to sound like a jerk, but Jane isnt really my type. Her hairs kinda disastrously curly and she mostly hangs out with guys. My types a little girlier. And honestly, I dont even like my type of girl that much, let alone other types. Not that Im asexual or something - I just find Romance Drama unbearable.”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but cant due to deadness.”

“Reading someones poetry is like seeing them naked -Davis Pritchett”

“Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someones about to die.”