Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
JOHN GREENBooks are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
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 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 GREENMaybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
JOHN GREENThe measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
JOHN GREENWhat a slut time is. She screws everybody.
JOHN GREENThe past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.
JOHN GREENYou are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
JOHN GREENSometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.
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 GREENEverything that comes together falls apart.
JOHN GREENThat didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
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 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 GREENCrying is you, plus tears.
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 GREEN