814 Quotes About John-green

These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons. They strain against the string and strain against it, and then something happens, and that string gets cut, and they just float away. (...) But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it.

but there was no denying her smile. That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

this is what i never allow myself to need.and of course i've been needing it all along.

is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in.

A volte leggi un libro e ti riempie di uno strano zelo evangelico che ti convince che il mondo frantumato che ti circonda non potrà mai ricomporsi a meno che, o fino a quando, tutti gli esseri umani non avranno letto quel libro. E poi ci sono libri come Un'imperiale afflizione, di cui non puoi parlare con l'altra gente, libri così speciali e rari e tuoi, che sbandierare il tuo amore per loro sembrerebbe un tradimento.

Illness can be undignified. Suffering does not have a purpose, and relationships are complicated. In the most painful way a person can, Hazel comes to realize, that love does not, cannot, conquer death. What it can do, however, is transcend it.

I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. And-God, I hope you won't take this personally-but I love my best friend more than anyone in the world.

But it doesn't say that dude shall not fall in love with dude, because that's just impossible, right? The gays are animals, answering their animal desires. It's impossible for animals to fall in love. And yet-

and the HE stands up. if frenchy's could bottle him up and sell him as porn, they'd probably own half of chicago within a year. he's what would happen after nine months if abercrombie fucked fitch. he's like a movie star, an olympic swimmer, and america's next top male model all at once. he's wearing a silver shirt and pink pants. everything about him sparkles. not my type at all. but...