You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
JOHN GREENYou don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
JOHN GREENThe urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
JOHN GREENMy thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
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 GREENThat didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
JOHN GREENIt is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
JOHN GREENYou are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
JOHN GREENWhen I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
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 GREENThe pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.
JOHN GREENDon’t make stuff because you want to make money – it will never make you enough money.
JOHN GREENShe loved mysteries so much that she became one.
JOHN GREENIt’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
JOHN GREENI enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence
JOHN GREENLove is keeping the promise anyway.
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 GREEN