Life works best when we think of people as people.
JOHN GREENLife works best when we think of people as 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 GREENThat didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
JOHN GREENCrying is you, plus tears.
JOHN GREENThe human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
JOHN GREENThe good times and the bad times both will pass.
JOHN GREENI figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
JOHN GREENYou can love someone so much but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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 GREENGreat books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
JOHN GREENYou do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREENI don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
JOHN GREENSome people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
JOHN GREENWhen things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.
JOHN GREENEvery year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
JOHN GREENWe’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
JOHN GREEN