Quotes from John Green

People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.

Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.

I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.

I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think.

We all romanticize the people we adore.

I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's a real privilege to have a seat at the table in the lives of young people when they're figuring out what matters to them.

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

Only now that I loved a grenade did I understand the foolishness of trying to save others from my own impending fragmentation: I couldn't unlove Augustus Waters. And I didn't want to.

She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.

Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous...Our miracle is different because people say it's impossible.

this is the rough part, okay? so just stay tuned for the good part. i promise it'll come soon.

So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.Takumi

You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.

Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous,...It is though.

Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such things is a valuable part of being a person.

Did I help you to a fate you didn't want?

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'

I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural.

Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper

I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.

My days had a pleasant identicalness about them. I had always liked that: I liked routine. I liked being bored. I didn't want to but I did.

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?

I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.