Quotes from John Green

Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.

There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea.

For me, the hero's journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero's journey is the voyage from strength to weakness.

I try to live life so that I can live with myself.

It is a good life, Hazel Grace.

Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it's worth.

When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life.

Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

What's the meaning of life? Other people.

Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young.

I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.

Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus squeezed my hand. "It is a good life, Hazel Grace.

And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope?

I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.

Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.

Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.

My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster.

I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled

It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.

It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings.