Sometimes, 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 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 GREENI figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
JOHN GREENCrying is you, plus tears.
JOHN GREENWhat you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.
JOHN GREENWe all use the future to escape the present.
JOHN GREENI’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
JOHN GREENWe’re all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.
JOHN GREENMaybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
JOHN GREENYou are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
JOHN GREENThe marks humans leave are too often scars.
JOHN GREENGreat books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
JOHN GREENGrief does not change you, It reveals you.
JOHN GREENPoetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
JOHN GREENI’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
JOHN GREENMaybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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 GREEN