We just did an awesome job of not dying.
JOHN GREENWe just did an awesome job of not dying.
JOHN GREENMaybe there is something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.
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 GREENIt is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
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 GREENYou are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
JOHN GREENWe just did an awesome job of not dying.
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 GREENOur fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.
JOHN GREENThe world is not a wish-granting factory.
JOHN GREENThe town was paper, but the memories were not.
JOHN GREENThe measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
JOHN GREENWhat’s the meaning of life? Other people.
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 GREENMy thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
JOHN GREENThat didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
JOHN GREEN