The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
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 GREENThe town was paper, but the memories were not.
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 GREENIf you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
JOHN GREENMaybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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 GREENHe liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
JOHN GREENThe future is a kind of nostalgia.
JOHN GREENOur lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.
JOHN GREENLife works best when we think of people as people.
JOHN GREENI just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit.
JOHN GREENThey love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
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 GREENMaybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
JOHN GREENWe’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
JOHN GREENYou realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
JOHN GREEN