Quotes from John Green

And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have too much cliché wrapped around it.

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

…it argues that true love will triumph in the end (which may or may not be true) but if it's a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have!

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

I was enrolled in divinity school and thought I was going to become a minister - I'm Episcopalian - but I was disavowed of that notion pretty quickly while working at the hospital. I found myself really unfulfilled by the answers that are traditionally offered to questions of why some people suffer and why others suffer so little.

Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression?

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.

Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.

I am a giant squid of anger.

what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it's like to work so hard to make sure everyone's happy, and to have not a single person recognize it

I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.

There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.

Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.

One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response to it. You can see people respond to your work visually or musically or with writing.

We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.

That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.

I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.

It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.

'Will Grayson, Will Grayson' is about two guys named Will Grayson who live in different Chicago suburbs who eventually meet each other.