“It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.comTagged: My Favorites, Love, Broken Heart
“The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: cancer, Courage, Endurance, Cancer Patients, Pain
“You're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.”— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.comTagged: Beautiful, Beautiful People, Beautiful Things, Simple Things, Simple Pleasures
“As his parted lips met mine, I started to feel breathless in a new and fascinating way.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: Love, Falling In Love, Kissing, Running Out Of Breath, breathing
“You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, the little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that was not built for them by navigating a playground that was.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: Growing Up, Children, Navigating The World, Understanding The World, My Favorites
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”— John Green, amazon.comTagged: Dating, Love, Relationships
“Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.”— John Green, Peter Van Houten, Antonietta Meo, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Weight Of Pain, Purpose Of Pain
“I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”— John Green, amazon.comTagged: True Love, Love, romance, Relationships
“But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”— John Green, amazon.comTagged: My Favorites, Little Infinity, Infinity, Forever, Love
“I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, and it should.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: Love, Love & Relationships, Infinities, Love Stories, Love & Happiness
“I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.”— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.com
“That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: cancer, Courage, Endurance, Cancer Patients, Pain
“Maybe okay will be our always.”— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.comTagged: My Favorites, Love, Always, Forever Love, Expiring Love
“I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn't get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn't gotten to be a per…”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: Death, After Death, Loss, Understanding Death, Losing A Loved One
“I told him that he was fearing something universal and inevitable, and how really, the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaningless of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: Death, After Death, Loss, Understanding Death, Losing A Loved One
“Grief does not change you...It reveals you.”— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Human Connections, Scars, Grief, On Grief
“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”— John Green, amazon.comTagged: My Favorites, Pain, Human Connections, Human Connection, Scars
“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you.”— John Green, amazon.comTagged: hurt, Love, Loss, Pain
“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.”— John Green, amazon.com
“That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.”— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.comTagged: My Favorites, Pain, Feeling, Emotion
“To be with him was to hurt him—inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he reached for me; I'd felt as though I were committing an act of violence against him, because I was.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Love & Relationships, hurt, Causing Pain
“His every syllable flirted.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: Flirting, talking, Language, My Favorites, Flirt
“My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”— John Green, Augustus Waters, amazon.comTagged: Thoughts, Stars, Metaphor, Lyrical Language, My Favorites
“I felt this weird mix of disappointment and anger welling up inside of me. I don't even know what the feeling was, really, just that there was a lot of it.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: Feelings, Pain, confusing, Feeling
“But you keep the promise anyways. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”— John Green, Isaac, amazon.comTagged: promises, Love, Love & Relationships
“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did a…”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“The definition of humanness is the opportunity to marvel at the majesty of creation.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: humanity, Being human, Creation, Majesty Of Life, Being Alive
“I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: Love, Love & Relationships, Distance, Young Love, Spaces Between
“I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.”— John Green, Isaac, amazon.comTagged: promises, Love, Love & Relationships, True Love
“My dad understood my cancer the way I did: in the vague and incomplete way people understand electrical circuits and ocean tides.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.comTagged: cancer, Understanding Cancer, sickness