John Green

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

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.

I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them.

The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness:'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.

Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.

There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.

The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.

I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.