You can love someone so much but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
JOHN GREENYou can love someone so much but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
JOHN GREENYou do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREENMaybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
JOHN GREENEverything that comes together falls apart.
JOHN GREENThe future is a kind of nostalgia.
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 GREENYou do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREENThey love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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 GREENMaybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
JOHN GREENShe loved mysteries so much that she became one.
JOHN GREENI just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit.
JOHN GREENYou are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
JOHN GREENDon’t make stuff because you want to make money – it will never make you enough money.
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 GREENIt is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
JOHN GREEN