John Green Quotes

“Nobody gets anybody else, not really. We're all stuck inside ourselves.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
― John Green

“And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.”
― John Green

“You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.”
― John Green

“What's the meaning of life? Other people.”
― John Green

“As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Hi, I’m at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.”
― John Green

“Reading someone's poetry is like seeing them naked" -Davis Pritchett”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“There's an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem that's been rumbling around inside me ever since I first read it, and part of it goes: 'Blown from the dark hill hither to my door/ Three flakes, then four/ Arrive, then many more.' You can count the first three flakes, and the fourth. Then language fails, and you have to settle in and try to survive the blizzard”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.”
― John Green

“Pain demands to be felt.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I'm on a rollercoaster that only goes up”
― John Green

“I want more numbers that I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I can not tell you thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Leaving feels too good, once you leave.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Let's put it this way- if The Fault in Our Stars was a person I would marry them. Will Grayson, WIll Grayson would be my maid/man of honor. Alaska and Paper Towns, An Abundance of Katherines and Let it Snow would be my best friends. In short- you can't go wrong with John Green. Ever.”
― Emma Crape

“It's turtles all the way fucking down, Holmesy. You're trying to find the turtle at the bottom of the pile, but that's not how it works."

"Because it's turtles all the way down," I said again, feeling something akin to a spiritual revelation.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Augustus Waters was sitting on the front step as we pulled into the driveway. He was holding a bouquet of bright orange tulips just beginning to bloom.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“This is it. I can't even not smoke anymore”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. So I looked him over as Patrick acknowledged for the thousandth time his ball-lessness etc. and soon it was a staring contest. After a while the boy smiled, and then finally his blue eyes glanced away. When he looked back at me, I flicked my eyebrows up to say, I win.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like that. Everyone just assumes they're true, because people are basically lazy and incurious, which incidentally is one of those words that sounds like it wouldn't be a word but is.”
― John Green

“Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I have an Augustus Waters fetish," I explained.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided - maybe there's like a secret cabal of boys who meet in the locker room and decide who's ugly and who's hot, because as far as I can remember, there was no such thing as a hot fourth-grader. - Lindsey Lee Wells”
― John Green

“When was the last good kiss you had?”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars