Without pain, how could we know joy?
JOHN GREENWithout pain, how could we know joy?
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 GREENThe human tongue is like wasabi: it’s very powerful, and should be used sparingly.
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 GREENThe marks humans leave are too often scars.
JOHN GREENWe all use the future to escape the present.
JOHN GREENWhat you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
JOHN GREENYou do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREENEvery year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
JOHN GREENIt’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.
JOHN GREENThe good times and the bad times both will pass.
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 GREENWhen you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you’re living a less performed life.
JOHN GREENYou gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
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 GREENMy thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
JOHN GREEN