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- The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but A Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- If you were to go [to the Rijksmuseum], and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- 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, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- It’s almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- 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 person yet.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.
- Hank Green, Vlogbrothers, Cat GIF Critique, 04-26-13
- It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.
- John Green, Vlogbrothers, Is College Worth It?, 08-21-12
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