John Green Way Quotations

Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.

The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have too much cliché wrapped around it.

The consequences of being un-cool feel so big that a lot of times you end of not finding ways to have open and honest conversations.

By the way, I've decided to start referring to myself exclusively as 'Daddy.' Everytime Daddy would otherwise say 'I' or 'Me,' Daddy is now going to say 'Daddy.

After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.

I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said. "And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you," I said.

The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve.

It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the good kids and all kids--as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.

That’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

And I wrote my way out of the labyrinth.

For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.

You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else...But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists.

Sometimes the way you think about someone isn't the way they actually are.

There's no way of knowing that your last good day is Your Last Good Day. At the time, it is just another good day.

And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.

the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.