Quotes from John Green

For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

I am trying to find ways to live honestly and hopefully in the world without ignoring or denying the universe´s cold and painful indifference to us.

...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world. t

I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

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 a hurricane.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?

I don't know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

Maybe there is something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.

Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

...It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine.

That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.

What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?

But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town.

There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another good day.

And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die?

We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time

Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.

For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.

How can you read and talk at the same time?" I asked. "Well, I usually can't, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

The last time I was this scared, I peed myself." "The last time I was this scared," Radar says, "I actually had to face a Dark Lord in order to make the world safe for wizards.