John Green

"I fell in love like you would fall asleep: slowly and then all at once."

- John Green

"As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."

- John Green

"You can love someone so much, but you can never love people as much as you can miss them."

- John Green

"You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them."

- John Green

"I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things."

- John Green

"I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things."

- John Green

"Everything goes except the love you pour into others and the world."

- John Green

"You gave me a forever within the numbered days…"

- John Green

"“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”"

- John Green

"I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you."

- John Green

"I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you."

- John Green

"You gave me a forever within the numbered days."

- John Green

"I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once."

- John Green

"I want to talk about it and not feel any embarrassment or shame because I think it’s important for people to hear from adults who have good, fulfilling lives and manage chronic mental illness as part of those good, fulfilling lives."

- John Green

"It’s not a mountain that you climb or a hurdle that you jump, it’s something that you live with in an ongoing way. People want that narrative of illness being in the past tense. But a lot of the time, it isn’t."

- John Green

"Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave."

- John Green

"It hurts because it matters."

- John Green

"Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too."

- John Green

"Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you."

- John Green

"It hurt because it mattered."

- John Green

"There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t."

- John Green

"We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken."

- John Green

"We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken."

- John Green

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

- John Green

"There is hope, even when your brain tells you otherwise."

- John Green

"For me, finding hope is not some philosophical exercise or sentimental notion; it is a prerequisite for my survival."

- John Green

"You can’t see the future coming — not the terrors, for sure, but you also can’t see the wonders that are coming, the moments of light-soaked joy that await each of us."

- John Green

"There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't."

- John Green

"There is Hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t."

- John Green

"There is hope, and when I feel like there isn’t hope, my brain is lying to me."

- John Green

"The mirror reflects not only our physical appearance but also our true selves."

- John Green

"Grief does not change you, it reveals you."

- John Green

"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal."

- John Green

"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 Green

"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 Green

"What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?"

- John Green

"Most marks people leave are just scars"

- John Green

"“That’s the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.”"

- John Green

"I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving."

- John Green

"The nature of fatherhood is that you9re doing something that you9re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified when you do it."

- John Green

"The nature of fatherhood is that you’re doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified when you do it."

- John Green

"The nature of fatherhood is that you're doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified when you do it."

- John Green

"You 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 Green

"Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the bandaid and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved."

- John Green

"We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad."

- John Green

"Some people have lives; some people have music."

- John Green

"I need to be outside. I need to be in the world and to remember that I am of it."

- John Green

"Anybody can look at you. It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see."

- John Green

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

- John Green

"I go to seek a great perhaphs"

- John Green

"I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met."

- John Green

"Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you."

- John Green

"What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?"

- John Green

"I’m so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that."

- John Green

"The town was paper, but the memories were not."

- John Green

"“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”"

- John Green

"Esther Day is a reminder that we should all make an effort to appreciate the people we love while we have them."

- John Green

"Some people graduate with honors, I am just honored to graduate… because discipline wasn’t my strength."

- John Green

"Enjoy your weekend like there’s no Monday waiting for you."

- John Green

"Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes a place for that."

- John Green

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

- John Green

"You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened."

- John Green