John Green may refer to:
The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.
I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.
If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.
The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.
Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence
The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals will frolic and fight. There will be no lord of the manor, which is not such a bad thing, because it seems to me that people have done a pretty poor job of guiding the biosphere for the last few thousand years.
We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad.
"Please stop," I said. "You're upsetting the black Santas. "
What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant.
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.