814 Quotes About John-green

Before us, hundreds of people passed, jogging and biking and Rollerblading. Amsterdam was a city designed for movement and activity, a city that would rather not travel by car, and so inevitably I felt excluded from it.

So there is this thing called Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Basically, this guy Abraham Maslow became famous for his theory that certain needs must be met before you can even have other kinds of needs.

Once your needs for food and water are fulfilled, you move up to the next set of needs, security, and then the next and the next, but the important thing is that, according to Maslow, until your physiological needs are satisfied, you can’t even worry about security or social needs, let alone “self-actualization,” which is when you start to, like, make art and think about morality and quantum physics and stuff.

Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me.

I hated it when people tried to build me up to prepare for battle, but I did it to him, anyway.

I despised myself for the cheesy sentiment, but what else did I have?

I couldn’t say anything else. He was too smart for the kinds of solace I could offer.

Nothing,” I said. “I’m just...” I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. “I’m just very, very fond of you.” He smiled with half his mouth, his nose inches from mine. “The feeling is mutual. I don’t suppose you can forget about it and treat me like I’m not dying.

And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you.