Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
JOHN GREENBooks so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
JOHN GREENSome tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
JOHN GREENWhatever you’re worried about, you’re bigger than the worries.
JOHN GREENPoetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
JOHN GREENIt is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
JOHN GREENI didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
JOHN GREENThe human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
JOHN GREENThere’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
JOHN GREENTalking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
JOHN GREENYou are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
JOHN GREENSometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
JOHN GREENYou like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
JOHN GREENGreat books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
JOHN GREENGrief does not change you, It reveals you.
JOHN GREENThat’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence.
JOHN GREENHe liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
JOHN GREEN