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“It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.”

John Green book Paper Towns

Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 304
Paper Towns (2008)

Way , Imagination , Light , Future

“People just liked Hassan, the way people like fast food and celebrities.”

John Green book An Abundance of Katherines

Colin Singleton, p. 62
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

People , Food , Way

“[M]aybe the strings break, or maybe our ships sink, or maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. If you choose the strings, then you're imagining a world in which you can become irreparably broken. If you choose the grass, you're saying that we are all infinitely interconnected, that we can use these root systems not only to understand one another but to become one another. The metaphors have implications.”

John Green book Paper Towns

Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 301
Paper Towns (2008)

World , Imagination , Understanding , Grass

“You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.”

John Green book Paper Towns

Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 216
Paper Towns (2008)

People , Imagination

“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.”

John Green

Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.
John Green asks himself "Why is being a nerd bad?" in July 27: How Nerdfighters Drop Insults http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy1M5VHF3no
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Stupidity , Intelligence

“People die. That’s true in novels, and it’s true in life. Dying is one of the very few things we all do. To deny or ignore the omnipresent reality of death seems to me a disservice to human beings. That said, acknowledging in my novels that death exists does not make me a murderer any more than acknowledging that cancer can be treated makes me an oncologist.”

John Green

Hey, some people on tumblr are wondering if writers feel upset or get a thrill when they kill their characters. Care to enlighten us?, John Green's tumblr, Tumblr, January 1, 2013, July 15, 2014 http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com/post/39363824562/hey-some-people-on-tumblr-are-wondering-if-writers,

Life , Death , People , Reality

“Colin believed that the world contained exactly two kinds of people: Dumpers and Dumpees. A lot of people will claim to be both, but those people miss the point entirely: You are predisposed to either one fate or the other. Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.”

John Green book An Abundance of Katherines

Colin Singleton, pp. 15-16
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

Fate , People , World

“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”

John Green book Looking for Alaska

Alaska Young, p. 52
Looking for Alaska (2005)

“God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.”

John Green book Looking for Alaska

Chip "the Colonel" Martin, p. 71
Looking for Alaska (2005)

God

“I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I've never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero's errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.”

John Green book Paper Towns

Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 304
Paper Towns (2008)

Love , Hope , Home , Girl

“But mothers lie. It's in the job description.”

John Green book An Abundance of Katherines

Colin Singleton, p. 4
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

Lie

“There is no them, there are only facets of us.”

John Green

Nerdfighting in Bangladesh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEtIR0xHDfk
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“Hank, before I move forward with this discussion, I should acknowledge that as a child I was an inveterate liar… As opposed to now, when I am a novelist.”

John Green

Poopy Nintendo Mystery Solved With Science http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyXVTLoR1lI
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“The Colonel ran ahead of me, gleeful at his ejection, and I jogged after him, trailing in his wake. I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.”

John Green book Looking for Alaska

Miles "Pudge" Halter, p. 49
Looking for Alaska (2005)

People

“Good morning Hank. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking: 'My older brother really needs a haircut!' Well, Hank, I've got one thing to say to that. Never!”

John Green

The Puff Pwns Gravity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY4LZRBHtvc
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Thinking

“Prick us, we bleed. Prick him, he pops.”

John Green book Looking for Alaska

Alaska Young, p. 110
Looking for Alaska (2005)

“I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met.”

John Green

Incorrectly attributed to John Green on various quotation sites and on social media.
Disputed

Love , People