John Green Matter Quotations

The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long.

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different..

I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, God we must look so lame, but it doesn't matter much when you have just now realized, all the time later, that you are still alive.

I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.

What matters to you defines your mattering.

No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

I do love you and what else matters but that