John Green I Quotations

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

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.

At some point, I realized I was Kaitlyning the encounter, so I decided to text Kaitlyn and ask for some advice.

I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know?

This is it. I can't even not smoke anymore

That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created.

She is close enough to me that I can see her, because even now there is the outward sign of visible light, even at night in this parking lot on the outskirts of Algoe. After we kiss, our foreheads touch as we stare at each other. Yes, I can see her almost perfectly in this cracked darkness.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

I don't really care how people read. I care if people read.

Maybe there's 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.

It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.

That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

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

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

I can't remember, because I never knew.