Quotes from John Green

I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

All at once, I couldn't figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.

All writing is rewriting.

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

By the power of the superglue beer sword, I designate you my driver!

He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.

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

Need is never a good basis for any relationship.

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.

Nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource.

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.

How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?

One day, you're 17 and you're planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.

What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

We all use the future to escape the present.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

Life works best when we think of people as people.

Life has become the future.

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth.

We are greater than the sum of our parts.