Quotes from John Green

We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus.

Maybe this time she wanted to be found, and to be found by me.

I've stopped thinking about it. I don't have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.

As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time

...It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting.

You can't know what an experience will mean to future-you until you are future-you. You need millions of seconds of perspective, which ultimately, only time can buy.

Everything that comes together falls apart.

Home is Where the Heart Is, Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget. True Love is Born from Hard Times.

True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.

There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

Love is the most common miracle.

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.

I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.

But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

And I don't blame him. I don't even trust me.

Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me.

She said 'I love you' as if it were a secret, and an immense one.

i wanted more time so we could fall in love.

We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.

You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.