John Green may refer to:
"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. "
That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.
He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace.
I hated being careful, too - or wanted to, at least.
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't.
If drunk were cookies, I'd be Famous Amos
We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.
It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings.
. . . whatever you're worried about, you're bigger than the worries.
Was it animal pee or human pee? Someone asked. How would I know? What, am I an expert in the study of pee?
You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.
We are literally in the heart of Jesus," he said. "I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally in the heart of Jesus. " "Someone should tell Jesus," I said. "I mean, it's gotta be dangerous, storing children with cancer in your heart. " "I would tell Him myself," Augustus said, "but unfortunately I am literally stuck inside of His heart, so He won't be able to hear me.
I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.
I don't really want to be the costar of anyone's life.
Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.
I love you present tense.
We all use the future to escape the present.
I really like umbrellas. It's like, I have a roof! I carry it with me! Umbrellas always amuse me.
Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.