Love is keeping the promise anyway.
JOHN GREENLove is keeping the promise anyway.
JOHN GREENThe world is not a wish-granting factory.
JOHN GREENI don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.
JOHN GREENI don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
JOHN GREENBooks so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
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 marks humans leave are too often scars.
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 GREENEverything that comes together falls apart.
JOHN GREENThe measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
JOHN GREENWe just did an awesome job of not dying.
JOHN GREENThe town was paper, but the memories were not.
JOHN GREENI didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.
JOHN GREENThe pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with.
JOHN GREENWe’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
JOHN GREENThey love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.
JOHN GREEN