John Green Lines Quotations

weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.

Shame about how we’re gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It’s the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is “sodomy’’.

Margo says, "I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right.

standing in line is a form of oppression

We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.

...all I have to do is stay in between the lines and make sure that no one is too close to me and I am not too close to anyone and keep leaving. Maybe it felt like this for her, too, but I could never feel like this alone.