Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
JOHN GREENMuch of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.
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 GREENYou don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
JOHN GREENMaybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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 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 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 GREENWe all use the future to escape the present.
JOHN GREENYou are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
JOHN GREENDon’t make stuff because you want to make money – it will never make you enough money.
JOHN GREENShe loved mysteries so much that she became one.
JOHN GREENWhat a slut time is. She screws everybody.
JOHN GREENI’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
JOHN GREENIt would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
JOHN GREENThey love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
JOHN GREENThe only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
JOHN GREEN