814 Quotes About John-green

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

The problem with chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to the point where nothing is real.

It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing attainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness who's kinda bossy, then I had to basically start liking a whole different person.

No you don't", she answers, and she is right. She can see it in my face- I understand now that I can't be her and she can't be me. Maybe Whitman had a gift I don't have. But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can be is me.

But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my tumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at

Oh my god, I am a banana.

I looked down and thought about how I was made of paper. I was the flimsy-foldable person, not everyone else.

We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

I think the future deserves our faith. But it is hard to argue with Emily Dickinson.