It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
JOHN GREENIt always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
JOHN GREENYou do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREENI didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
JOHN GREENSome infinities are bigger than other infinities.
JOHN GREENDon’t make stuff because you want to make money – it will never make you enough money.
JOHN GREENThe only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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 measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
JOHN GREENShe loved mysteries so much that she became one.
JOHN GREENThe past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
JOHN GREENTalking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
JOHN GREENWhat a slut time is. She screws everybody.
JOHN GREENThe good times and the bad times both will pass.
JOHN GREENHe liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
JOHN GREENWe’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
JOHN GREENY’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
JOHN GREEN