We just did an awesome job of not dying.
JOHN GREENWe just did an awesome job of not dying.
JOHN GREENThere is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.
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 GREENSome people have lives; some people have music.
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 GREENWhat a slut time is. She screws everybody.
JOHN GREENI don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.
JOHN GREENMy thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
JOHN GREENYou are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
JOHN GREENWe all use the future to escape the present.
JOHN GREENYou do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREENAs he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
JOHN GREENMaybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
JOHN GREENPoetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
JOHN GREENWe are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
JOHN GREENThere’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
JOHN GREEN