John Green

Quotes

• “…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like ju...”
• “Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies...”
• “I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the busines...”
• “It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and s...”
• “I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that litera...”
• “Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children...”
• “Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on ...”
• “I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suff...”
• “Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page,"Radar said. "For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris speciali...”
• “Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make e...”
• “The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actu...”
• “Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot be...”
• “When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself...”
• “Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.”
• “I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.”
• “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
• “Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.”
• “You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
• “If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane.”
• “Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.”
• “We all romanticize the people we adore.”
• “I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.”