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  • #1
    John Green
    “Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #2
    John Green
    “So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #3
    John Green
    “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #4
    John Green
    “What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #5
    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #6
    John Green
    “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape 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, Looking for Alaska

  • #7
    Kiera Cass
    “It's always the fear of looking stupid that stops you from being awesome.”
    Kiera Cass, The Selection

  • #8
    John Green
    “What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #9
    John Green
    “That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #10
    John Green
    “I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #11
    John Green
    “It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #12
    John Green
    “Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. 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

  • #13
    John Green
    “When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #14
    John Green
    “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.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #15
    John Green
    “Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #16
    John Green
    “The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #17
    John Green
    “Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are… People are different when you can smell them and see them up close…”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #18
    John Green
    “She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #20
    John Green
    “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #21
    Gayle Forman
    “Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
    Gayle Forman, If I Stay

  • #22
    John Green
    “Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #23
    John Green
    “Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) 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, Looking for Alaska

  • #24
    John Green
    “At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #25
    John Green
    “People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #26
    John Green
    “I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #27
    John Green
    “At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #28
    John Green
    “We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #29
    John Green
    “I is the hardest word to define.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #30
    John Green
    “Most adults are just hollowed out. You watch them try to fill themselves up with booze or money or God or fame or whatever they worship, and it all rots them from the inside until nothing is left but the money or the booze or God they though would save them. Adults think they are wielding power, but really power is wielding them.”
    John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

  • #31
    Kiera Cass
    “I'm not sure anyone knows what they're looking for until they find it.”
    Kiera Cass, The Heir



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