John Green Quotes

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth.

In the end, what you do isn’t going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with.

Ben’s tongue is like sunscreen…It’s good for your health and should be applied liberally.

I think about how much depends upon a best friend. Then you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don’t scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it’s not.

Nerdfighter pwns woot. Everyone knows that.

We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.

Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

Writing does not resurrect. It buries.

So it’s your death suit. Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit? Yeah, I said. It’s a dress I bought for my fifteenth birthday party. But I don’t wear it on dates. His eyes lit up. We’re on a date? he asked. I looked down, feeling bashful. Don’t push it.

I think one of the most important differences between us is that you are excellent at living in a way that is commensurate with your values, whereas I am not. For instance, I didn’t recycle until I watched An Inconvenient Truth and I’m still sort of iffy on it. And also, I didn’t vote in 2000, even though I could have voted in Florida *hits self on head repeatedly* Ahh George Bush! It’s all my fault! God! So stupid! *sigh* Let’s change the subject. Also, we have vastly different happy dances.

I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet.

I don’t think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet contains a lot of videos of squirrels riding skateboards, but it can also be a place that facilitates big conversations about books.