John Green: Trending quotes

“The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.”

Hassan Harbish and Lindsey Wells, p. 214
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

“So I guess the first thing I would say is: you need to write a story that, unlike my story, has a beginning, a middle and an end. Also the beginning shouldn't involve hating foxes and the end shouldn't involve no one liking you.”

Hazel Grace Lancaster, p. 139
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

“How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?”

John on a story he wrote when he was in elementary school Nov. 26th: Writing Advice (And Notes on Surnameless Tiffany) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gf69J1Go98&feature=channel YouTube

John Green book Looking for Alaska

Alaska Young, p. 82
Looking for Alaska (2005)

“I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”

“The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?”

Hazel Grace Lancaster, p. 260
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

“The test will measure whether you are an informed, engaged and productive citizen of the world, and it will take place in schools and bars and hospitals and dorm-rooms and in places of worship. You will be tested on first dates, in job interviews, while watching football and while scrolling through your Twitter feed. The test will judge your ability to think about things other than celebrity marriages, whether you'll be easily persuaded by empty political rhetoric and whether you'll be able to place your life and your community in a broader context. The test will last your entire life, and it will be comprised of the millions of decisions that, when taken together, make your life yours. And everything - everything - will be on it.”

How to Make Guys Like You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFiApf_m4H0 YouTube

“What's the meaning of life?' Other people.”

Introduction to Crash Course World History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yocja_N5s1I&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9 YouTube

“Colin did not laugh. Instead he thought, Tampons have strings? Why? Of all the major human mysteries—God, the nature of the universe, etc.—he knew the least about tampons. To Colin, tampons were a little bit like grizzly bears: he was aware of their existence, but he'd never seen one in the wild, and didn't really care to.”

100 QUESTIONS ANSWERED!!!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJs1dLGbGZY YouTube

“"'Sup?" asked Hassan.
"Sup is not a word," answered Colin withought looking up.
"You're like sunshine on a cloudy day, Singleton. When it's cold outside, you're the month of May."”

Colin Singleton, p. 57
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

“Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large.”

Hassan Harbish and Colin Singleton, p. 128
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

John Green book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Will Grayson, p. 3
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010)

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.”

John Green book Paper Towns

Margo Roth Spiegelman, p. 37
Paper Towns (2008)

“Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.”

“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?”

Hazel Grace Lancaster, p. 3 (opening words)
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

“He just wanted to play robot, for God's sake. Was that so wrong?”

Hazel's Dad, p. 213-214
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)