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“The fundamental mistake I had always made—and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make—was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.”

John Green book Paper Towns

Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 199
Paper Towns (2008)

“Thomas Edison's last words were, "It's very beautiful over there." I don't know where there is, but I know it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”

John Green book Looking for Alaska

Miles "Pudge" Halter, p. 221
Looking for Alaska (2005)

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”

John Green book Paper Towns

Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 229
Paper Towns (2008)

“She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale.
"DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted.
Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts.”

John Green book Looking for Alaska

"That's not any better!"
Chip "the Colonel" Martin and Alaska Young, pp. 59-60
Looking for Alaska (2005)

“Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.”

John Green book An Abundance of Katherines

Colin Singleton, pg. 215 (closing words)
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

“The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing it well or you're doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That is actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.”

John Green

July 19: A Day in the Life of a Writer (Who Has No Friends) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXbGFyNXLwA <br class="br">YouTube

“I may not have facts on my side, Hank, but I still think I'm right. That's the American way.”

John Green

Brotherhood 2.0: May 18: How to Write a Book Proposal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7GOut8eO2g <br class="br">YouTube

“Now, Hank, obviously you and I are living proof that sometimes a nerd meets another nerd and they fall in nerd-love.”

John Green

The Puff Pwns Gravity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY4LZRBHtvc <br class="br">YouTube

“But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. (Cancer is also a side effect of dying. Almost everything is, really.)”

John Green book The Fault in Our Stars

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

“At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.”

John Green book Looking for Alaska

Miles "Pudge" Halter, p. 7
Looking for Alaska (2005)

“That smile could end wars and cure cancer.”

John Green book An Abundance of Katherines

Colin Singleton, p. 32
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

“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.”

John Green book An Abundance of Katherines

Colin Singleton, p. 111
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

“Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is. You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the things paper-thin and paper-frail. And all the people, too. I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.”

John Green book Paper Towns

Margo Roth Spiegelman, pp. 57-58
Paper Towns (2008)

“It was, he thought, just like how authors always wrote things in ways other than how they actually happened.”

John Green book An Abundance of Katherines

Colin Singleton, p. 70
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

“You can say a lot of things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are unduly afraid of deep fryers.”

John Green book Looking for Alaska

Miles "Pudge" Halter, p. 22
Looking for Alaska (2005)

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

John Green book An Abundance of Katherines

Colin Singleton, p. 94
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

“And then he lay there in his fever of sorry and repeated the now memorized note in his head and wanted to cry, but instead he only felt this aching behind his solar plexus. Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you, minus something.”

John Green book An Abundance of Katherines

Colin Singleton, p. 7
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

“He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment—because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.”

John Green book An Abundance of Katherines

Colin Singleton, p. 79
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

“This is why we call people exes, I guess -- because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end. It's too easy to see an X as a cross-out. It's not, because there's no way to cross out something like that. The X is a diagram of two paths.”

John Green book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Will Grayson, p. 277
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010)