You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREENYou do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
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 GREENI enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence
JOHN GREENMaybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
JOHN GREENI figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
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 GREENWhen you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you’re living a less performed life.
JOHN GREENThe human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
JOHN GREENWe just did an awesome job of not dying.
JOHN GREENThe past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
JOHN GREENOur lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
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 GREENThere is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.
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 GREENI’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
JOHN GREEN