Quotes from John Green

When you're writing a novel, you spend four years sitting in your basement and a year waiting for the book to come out and then you get the feedback. When you do work online, the moment you're finished making it, people start responding to it which is really fun and allows for a kind of community development you just can't have in novels.

The worse the haircut, the better the man.

I found his last words without too much searching. Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, 'Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.

She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.

But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?" I nodded into his shirt. "Gives you an idea how I feel about you," he said. My old man. He always knew just what to say.

But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can be is me.

I have to tell you man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.

moms aren't the best audience for medication humor.

If I could just stay alive for a week, I'd know the unwritten secrets of Anna's mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy.

Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds out that I did hear. She said, "I won't be a mom anymore." It gutted me pretty badly.

Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.

She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." - Alaska

Who would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you?

If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.

Some people have lives; some people have music.

You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.

Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of the stars to cross.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

Maybe Harry Potter is real and you're not.

The existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate".

She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.

Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!

God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.