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As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once.
John Green (author)
The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?
John Green (author)
Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries-God, the nature of the universe, etc.-he knew the least about tampons. To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears: he was aware of their existence, but he'd never seen one in the wild, and didn't really care to.
John Green (author)
Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's something you just are.
John Green (author)
[Twilight] argues that true love will triumph in the end, which may or may not be true, but if it's a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.
John Green (author)
I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer. Because it's the only apprenticeship we have. It's the only way of learning how to write a story.
John Green (author)
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia." "Huh?" I asked. "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 (author)
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.
John Green (author)
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 (author)
I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.
John Green (author)
There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.
John Green (author)
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 (author)
My thoughts are starts I can't fathom into constellations.
John Green (author)
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
John Green (author)
It is so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
John Green (author)
The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.
John Green (author)
Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large.
John Green (author)
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.
John Green (author)
The fundamental mistake I had always made-and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make-was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.
John Green (author)
At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.
John Green (author)
That smile could end wars and cure cancer.
John Green (author)
You can say a lot of things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are unduly afraid of deep fryers.
John Green (author)
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