Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
JOHN GREENPoetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
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 GREENThe past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
JOHN GREENYou do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREENTalking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
JOHN GREENI enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence
JOHN GREENSome people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
JOHN GREENWithout pain, how could we know joy?
JOHN GREENYou can love someone so much but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
JOHN GREENThe future is a kind of nostalgia.
JOHN GREENI figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
JOHN GREENMaybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
JOHN GREENThe world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.
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 GREENWe are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
JOHN GREENWhen I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
JOHN GREEN