110+ John Green Quotes On Hope, Reading And Friendship

John Green is an American author, vlogger, producer, and educator. He is best known for his award-winning young adult novels, including The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns. He is also the co-creator of the YouTube channel Vlogbrothers, which he runs with his brother Hank Green. Following is our collection on famous quotes by John Green on love, life, hope.

Top 10 John Green Quotes

1. Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.
2. Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
3. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.
4. ...And in freedom, most people find sin.
5. The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
6. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.
7. A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.
8. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.
9. Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war
10. I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

John Green Image Quotes

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. — John Green

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war — John Green

Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children. — John Green

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood. — John Green

This is so much fun, but I’m so sleepy. To be continued? — John Green

John Green Short Quotes

• Waffles аrе јust awesome bread.
• The town was paper, but the memories were not.
• Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
• Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.
• Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is used to cut diamonds.
• This is so much fun, but I’m so sleepy. To be continued?
• I really like umbrellas. It's like, I have a roof! I carry it with me! Umbrellas always amuse me.
• If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
• And I put the latte down on a table, awash in the happy middle of my greatest adventure.
• Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.

John Green Quotes About Love

I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time. — John Green

You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them. — John Green

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

Headline?" he asked. "'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said. "'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said. "'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said. — John Green

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. — John Green

I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful. — John Green

I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving. — John Green

Maybe there is something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters. — John Green

One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life. — John Green

They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting. — John Green

John Green Quotes About Life

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering? — John Green

As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story. — John Green

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person. — John Green

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too. — John Green

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. — John Green

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken. — John Green

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. — John Green

You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful. — John Green

What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV. — John Green

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. — John Green

John Green Quotes About Hope

The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy. — John Green

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that. — John Green

I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. — John Green

I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps. — John Green

Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid, no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories. — John Green

Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful. — John Green

Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me. — John Green

I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose. — John Green

You know what ambrosia tastes like? It tastes like all the things you can't eat on Weight Watchers. Cheeseburgers, sugar cookies, regular freaking ice cream instead of, like, ice cream that's made out of air and human hope. — John Green

And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope? — John Green

John Green Quotes About Reading

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood. — John Green

I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think. — John Green

Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death. — John Green

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are. — John Green

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. — John Green

Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told. — John Green

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. — John Green

[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use. — John Green

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal. — John Green

Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that. — John Green

John Green Quotes About Writing

Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while telling it — John Green

I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken. — John Green

Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us fight the nihilistic urges that constantly threaten to consume us. — John Green

The right story needs the right telling. — John Green

Writing does not resurrect. It buries. — John Green

Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel. — John Green

I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance. — John Green

That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out. — John Green

I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit. — John Green

One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response to it. You can see people respond to your work visually or musically or with writing. — John Green

John Green Quotes About Books

At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved. — John Green

I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other. — John Green

Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die. — John Green

In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla. — John Green

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back. — John Green

Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about. — John Green

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. — John Green

Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do. — John Green

It's like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to be soulmates. Or book. Oh my god...you like The Outsiders too...it's like we're the same person! No, we're not. It's like we have the same English teacher. There's a difference. — John Green

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start. — John Green

John Green Quotes About Learning

There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do. — John Green

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much. — John Green

I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds. — John Green

I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have, it's the only way of learning how to write a story. — John Green

I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed to learn it: How. Why. When. Where. What. — John Green

I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting. — John Green

I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind. — John Green

It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations. — John Green

Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people. — John Green

The way we still essentializ, we're constantly essentializing people as merely poor, or merely other, and in the end you can't have a relationship with people. I think the biggest job of adulthood is to learn to imagine other people complexly. — John Green

John Green Quotes About Change

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you. — John Green

We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. — John Green

Grief doesn't change you. It reveals you. — John Green

When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us. — John Green

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change. — John Green

High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most. — John Green

You can't just make me different and then leave. You can't. You can't change me and make my whole life centered around you, then leave. — John Green

Oh, my god," Augustus said. "i can't believe i have a crush on a girl with such cliché wishes." "i was thirteen," i said again, although of course i was only thinking "crush crush crush crush crush". I was flattered but changed the subject immediately. — John Green

John Green Quotes About Thoughtful

...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again. — John Green

It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead. — John Green

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. — John Green

The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me. — John Green

Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie. — John Green

Hazel Grace,” he said. “Hi,” I said. “How are you?” “Grand,” he said. “I have been wanting to call you on a nearly minutely basis, but I have been waiting until I could form a coherent thought in re An Imperial Affliction.” (He said “in re.” He really did. That boy.) — John Green

I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school. — John Green

Language buries, but does not resurrect. — John Green

Okay, maybe I'm not such a shitty writer. But I can't pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations. — John Green

Because no one thought she was a person, she had no one to really talk to. — John Green

John Green Quotes About Wait

Wait, wait. I don't get it.' 'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells. — John Green

Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow. — John Green

Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were 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. — John Green

I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow. — John Green

How about I call you when I finish this?” “But you don’t even have my phone number,” he said. “I strongly suspect you wrote it in the book.” He broke out into that goofy smile. “A nd you say we don’t know each other. — John Green

We left. We did not say: Don't drive, You're drunk. We did not say: We aren't letting you in that car when you are upset. We did not say: We insist on going with you. We did not say: This can wait until tomorrow. Anything-everything-can wait. — John Green

He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory? — John Green

She waited for me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the breadcrumb tail until it dead-ended into her. — John Green

I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did. — John Green

John Green Quotes About Start

Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank. — John Green

I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what. — John Green

He flipped himself onto his side and kissed me. "You're so hot," I said, my hand still on his leg. "I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish," he answered, still kissing me. I laughed. "I have an Augustus Waters fetish," I explained. — John Green

"And we'll call you... hmmm. Pudge." "Huh?" "Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right." — John Green

I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel. — John Green

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas. — John Green

But in AIA, Anna decides that being a person with cancer who starts a cancer charity is a bit narcissistic, so she starts a charity called The Anna Foundation for People with cancer Who Want to Cure Cholera. — John Green

The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was. — John Green

You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you. — John Green

I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the good kids and all kids--as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for. — John Green

John Green Quotes About Words

Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you. — John Green

In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our obsession with sexual purity is such that once you are no longer this THING, you are indescribable. — John Green

The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence. — John Green

I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like you're given the choice to say bad-bye, or awful-bye, or couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye. Everytime you leave, it's supposed to be a good one. — John Green

You can't just make me different, and then leave. Because I was fine before, Alaska. I was just fine with me and last words and school friends, and you can't just make me different and then die. — John Green

I don't want to hear another negative word about cheerleaders. If it weren't for cheerleaders, who would tell us when and how to be happy during athletic events? If it weren't for cheerleaders, how would America's prettiest girls get the exercise that's so vital to a healthy life? — John Green

That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjectival version of the word pedophile? You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are. — John Green

In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, “Feel Bad About Yourself. — John Green

Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you, minus something. He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage. — John Green

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die. — John Green

John Green Quotes About Quiet

It was nice - in the dark and the quiet... and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing. — John Green

For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and took off, pulling me behind her. — John Green

I couldn't hear a thing in the world but you. And it was so cold then, and so silent, and I loved you so much. Now it's hot and dead quiet again, and I love you still. — John Green

Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drunk and tired. — John Green

We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus. — John Green

She spoke quietly then, the tiniest crack in her voice, and all at once Lacey Pemerton was not Lacey Pemberton. She was just—like, a person. — John Green

As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar. — John Green

I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy — John Green

Radar threw his books into his locker and shut it. Then the din of conversation around us quieted just a bit as he turned his eyes toward the heavens and shouted, "IT IS NOT MY FAULT THAT MY PARENTS OWN THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF BLACK SANTAS. — John Green

The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic — John Green

John Green Famous Quotes And Sayings

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. — John Green

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war — John Green

I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin. — John Green

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood. — John Green

the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering. — John Green

This is so much fun, but I’m so sleepy. To be continued? — John Green

The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams. So much depends upom a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. — John Green

Let's make a deal: You figure out what the labyrinth is and how to get out of it, and i'll get you laid. -Alaska Young — John Green

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate. — John Green

The thing about That Guy Is a Gigolo,' Radar says, 'I mean, the thing about it as a game, is that in the end it reveals a lot more about the person doing the imagining than it does about the person being imagined. — John Green

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste. — John Green

As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean: "Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it." "What’s that?" Anna asked. "Water," the Dutchman said. "Well, and time. — John Green

I don't suppose I can wear the flamingo tie," he said as he pulled on black socks. "It's a bit festive, given the occasion," I responded. "Can't wear it to the opera," said the Colonel, almost smiling. "Can't wear it to a funeral. Can't use it to hang myself. It's a bit useless, as ties go." I gave him a tie. — John Green

She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn. — John Green

I don't like reindeer. They seem like regular deer, only more dangerous. — John Green

Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon. — John Green

Something invisible snapped inside her. — John Green

History doesn't have a curfew. — John Green

Sometimes the way you think about someone isn't the way they actually are. — John Green

Waffles are just awesome bread. — John Green

Grateful to be a little boat, full of water, still floating. — John Green

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are. — John Green

No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around. — John Green

But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman. — John Green

I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you. — John Green

You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. — John Green

Home is Where the Heart Is, Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget. True Love is Born from Hard Times. — John Green

the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate — John Green

I may die young, but at least I'll die smart. — John Green

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. — John Green

A paper town for a paper girl. — John Green

The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it. — John Green

My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun," Margo said. — John Green

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you. — John Green

All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing. — John Green

Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'. — John Green

You will go to the paper towns and never come back. — John Green

I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation. — John Green

I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill.” - Takumi — John Green

The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't. — John Green

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails. — John Green

You say into my cracks and I saw into yours. — John Green

Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy? — John Green

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person. — John Green

Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me. — John Green

I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing. — John Green

This was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die."- Paper Towns — John Green

I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me. — John Green

I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise. — John Green

People always get used to beauty, though.” “I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he answered, smiling. I felt myself blushing. “Thank you for coming to Amsterdam,” he said. “Thank you for letting me hijack your wish,” I said. “Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa — John Green

Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always — John Green

I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay? — John Green

When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff.' Which is not a good insult at all, like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience. — John Green

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you. — John Green

She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes. — John Green

We all use the future to escape the present. — John Green

If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world. — John Green

Life Lessons by John Green

1. John Green's work emphasizes the importance of being open to new experiences and perspectives, as well as the power of friendship and community.
2. He also shows us the importance of resilience and perseverance in the face of adversity, and how to find joy in the little moments of life.
3. Finally, John Green's work encourages us to think critically and ask questions, and to never stop learning and growing.