"John Green"の名言

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

What a slut time is. She screws everybody.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

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

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.