814 Quotes About John-green

When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.

And the moral of the story is that you don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.

I fear oblivion' he said. "I fear it like a proverbial blind man fears the dark

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

I think two of the fundamental facts of being a person are 1. We must go on, and 2. None of us ever walks alone. We may feel alone (in fact, we will feel alone), but even in the crushing grind of isolation, we aren't alone.

I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and toward the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go, too! I want to go, too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.

Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about.

getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afterward you're devastated and they're relieved; it's over for them and just starting for you.