The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.
JOHN GREENThe nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.
JOHN GREENHe liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.
JOHN GREENWe’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
JOHN GREENGod knows that’s what everyone else does.
JOHN GREENEvery year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
JOHN GREENAs he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
JOHN GREENWhatever you’re worried about, you’re bigger than the worries.
JOHN GREENDon’t make stuff because you want to make money – it will never make you enough money.
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 pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.
JOHN GREENMy thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
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 GREENThe town was paper, but the memories were not.
JOHN GREENMaybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
JOHN GREENYou do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREENYou do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREEN