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“The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter -- maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“You can't dingleberry that! That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry!”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost....I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime...”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“And so we all matter - maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“But monotony doesn't make for painlessness. In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Appollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in relationship to the monotony of dumping: we have thirty two teeth. After a while, having each tooth individually destroyed probably gets repetitive, even dull. But it never stops hurting.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“If there’s one thing I know, it’s that there’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“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, An Abundance of Katherines

“All hurt is brain hurt.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“One of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable."

Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“That's absolutely true, about the eight glasses a day. There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water. Most experts agree that unless there's something horribly wrong with you, you should just drink water whenever you're - get this - thirsty.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“I thought you hung the moon.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Eventually, he found the bed too comfortable for his state of mind, so he lay down on his back, his legs sprawled across the carpet. He anagrammed "yrs forever" until he found one he liked: sorry fever. And then he lay there in his fever of sorry and repeated the now memorized note in his head and wanted do cry, but instead he only felt this aching behind his solar plexus. Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you, minus something. He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage.
It hurt like the worst ass-kicking he'd ever gotten. And he'd gotten plenty.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Have you really read all those books in your room?”

Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska