Quotes from John Green

Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

Maybe all the strings inside him broke.

I want to leave a mark. But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars.

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

Why don't we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that's not an easy thing to do.

Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

Nerd girls are the world's most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.

Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost

But mothers lie. It's in the job description.

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.

You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

I love you present tense.

Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.