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Your heart was
a wishing well.
Bottomless.
Trying to love you
bankrupted me.


John Mark Green

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JOHN GREEN That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.
JOHN GREEN I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassi...
JOHN GREEN I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit.
JOHN GREEN I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to us...
JOHN GREEN Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war
JOHN GREEN And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall...
JOHN GREEN Have you really read all those books in your room?”

Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’...
JOHN GREEN He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, a...
JOHN GREEN Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why...
JOHN GREEN It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and fe...
JOHN GREEN I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.
JOHN GREEN What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those ...
JOHN GREEN I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fu...
JOHN GREEN When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
JOHN GREEN pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A ...
JOHN GREEN Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful. And that is a powerful opiate, cert...
JOHN GREEN I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
JOHN GREEN When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again....
JOHN GREEN It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
JOHN GREEN Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth,...
JOHN GREEN [I]t occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, beca...
JOHN GREEN Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will… but then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing eve...
JOHN GREEN What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant puddin...
JOHN GREEN 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 w...
JOHN GREEN You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how ...
JOHN GREEN You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.
JOHN GREEN The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, o...
JOHN GREEN It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.
JOHN GREEN I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. H...
JOHN GREEN I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. You could almost see through his eyes they ...
JOHN GREEN And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.
JOHN GREEN -so if the inevitability of oblivion worries you, than I suggest you ignore it. God knows that's wha...
JOHN GREEN Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
JOHN GREEN You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
JOHN GREEN What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
JOHN GREEN Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the sid...
JOHN GREEN What's that?"
"The laundry basket?"
"No, next to it."
"I don't see anything next to i...
JOHN GREEN