814 Quotes About John-green

and on that thin-mooned night, I could see little more than her silhouette except for when she smoked, the burning cherry of the cigarette washing her face in pale red light.

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.

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.

If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?

Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.