Quotes from John Green

This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

What about the rest of your life?" She shrugged. "What about it?" "Aren't you worried about, like, forever?" "Forever is composed of nows," she says.

Everybody was so kind. Strong, too. In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." "Quick, give me a throw pillow and some thread because that needs to be an Encouragement.

I even tried to tell myself to live my best life today.

You can't just make me different and then leave. You can't. You can't change me and make my whole life centered around you, then leave.

For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.

It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.

I don't really want to be the costar of anyone's life.

Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy.

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.

I think maybe the reason I have spent most of my life being afraid is that I have been trying to prepare myself to train my body for real fear when it comes. But I am not prepared.

Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down

It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.

His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn't even know that guys could turn me on-not, like, in real life

You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.

Long week. Long month. Long life.

In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." (p. 28)

Whatever. Great day. Today. Best day of my life.

feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.

At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.