Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
JOHN GREENBooks so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
JOHN GREENThey love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
JOHN GREENI’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
JOHN GREENI didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
JOHN GREENI’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
JOHN GREENWhen I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
JOHN GREENMaybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
JOHN GREENSome people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.
JOHN GREENThere is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
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 pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.
JOHN GREENYour responsibility is not to the people you’re making the gift for, but the gift itself.
JOHN GREENHe liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
JOHN GREENThe world is not a wish-granting factory.
JOHN GREENDepression is a side effect of dying.
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 GREEN