John Green
John Green
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 August 1977
CountryUnited States of America
people adore
We all romanticize the people we adore.
tears cry abundance
Crying is you, plus tears
lovely strange
How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.
goodbye ideas might
Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
pain joy broccoli
Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?
want matter
I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.
real teenager emotional
I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now.
smart may late
You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.
life romantic special
You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.
school simple people
It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you are wrong, and all the nuances you failed to account for, and all the truths that turned out to be not as simple as you once believed. And it seems to me that one of the central pleasures of attending school is that you get to read with really well-informed people who can help welcome you into a complex world stuffed with rich and maddening ambiguity.
i-hate-you people leaving
It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.
real hero vaccines
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.
dream ambition done
...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.
love fighting worry
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.