Quotes by John Green

Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals t-shirts: Doesnt it depend on what my goals are?

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

You just gotta tell her, man,’ I said. ‘You just gotta say, “Angela, I really like you, but there’s something you need to know: when we go to my house and hook up, we’ll be watched by the twenty-four hundred eyes of twelve hundred black Santas.

Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together.What?Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud.Thats who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.The people whove been in your secret hiding places.The people you bite your thumb in front of.Hi.Hi.......Wow. My first Lindsey.My second Colin.That was fun. Lets try it again.Sold.............

Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

She said, Its not life or death, the labyrinth.Um, okay. So what is it?Suffering, she said. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. Thats the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... 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. Its the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

Imagine others complexly.

Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off.Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.

The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.

All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to. Someone who — because no one thought she was a person — had no one to really talk to.

Rabea al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.

Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it to do great things in us & through us, because suffering is fertile... it an grow new life.

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. i have to believe that’s a sign.

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.

We all romanticize the people we adore.

If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

I’m in love with you, and I’m not in thebusiness of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returnedto dust, and I know the sun will swallowthe only earth we’ll ever have, and I amin love with you.

No, I don’t think you’re gonna be single forever, and also I don’t understand your obsession with romantic love. There are other ways to have fulfilling relationships that can sustain you and make your life great and fun other than having a sexualized relationship. It’s not the only kind of fulfilling human interaction. So, even if you are single forever, that doesn’t mean that you’ve had some kind of failed life.

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.

Keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe... but failing to open the box doesnt kill the cat.