Quotes from John Green

Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't.

…God, it's over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people's problems and get some of your own.

He responded a few minutes later. Okay. I wrote back. Okay. He responded: Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.

While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.

Anyway, that was the last good day I had with Gus until the Last Good Day.

The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children.

Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.

Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else

I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.'

At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.

History doesn't have a curfew.

Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.

Headline?" he asked. "'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said. "'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said. "'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said.

The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.

The amazing thing is that we're right to hold onto hope. The world may be broken but hope is not crazy.

That tastes like hope feels.

Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.

Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch me—oh, god!

(I didn't tell him that thediagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.)

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.