Quotes from John Green

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.

I don't think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet contains a lot of videos of squirrels riding skateboards, but it can also be a place that facilitates big conversations about books.

Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause

Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich

I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I wanted it to be just me and just him.

I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to see his parents sink to their knees in the dew-wet grass and moan in pain.

dating you would be like a series of unnecessary root canals interspersed with occasional makeout sessions.

I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry

The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.

Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.

They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing.

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are.

It's hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes

It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.

...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the job of reading is to divine authorial intent.

Dad had a sign of his own. MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, it read, and then underneath that (AND GUS).

This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.

It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world, that they dont care if that mark is a scar.

If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

Your friendship with her-it sleeps with the fishes.

Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.