John Green: Trending quotes

“He'd never been all that good at math, but he was a goddamned world-famous expert in getting dumped.”

Miles "Pudge" Halter, pp. 220-221
Looking for Alaska (2005)

John Green book An Abundance of Katherines

Colin Singleton, p. 60
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

“If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.”

“"And we'll call you… hmmm. Pudge."
"Huh?"
"Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right."”

The Greek Debt Crisis Explained in Four Minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEVqeaFHsHE YouTube

“Never go to war with a noun. You will always lose.”

Chip "the Colonel" Martin and Miles "Pudge" Halter, p. 14
Looking for Alaska (2005)

“When people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals”

"CC US History: The 1960 in America", referring to "War on Poverty", but also several later concepts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkXFb1sMa38&index=41&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s YouTube

“Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe wants something important to happen to him, even if the important thing is horrible. It is not the disgust of seeing a dead stranger, and not the breathlessness of hearing a shotgun pumped outside of Becca Arrington's house. This cannot be addressed by breathing exercises. This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.”

: The Fall of The Roman Empire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PszVWZNWVA YouTube

John Green book Paper Towns

Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, pp. 140-141
Paper Towns (2008)

“Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read that book.”

“It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don't care if that mark is a scar.”

Hazel Grace Lancaster, p. 33
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

“I mean Hank, the movie was great, but the thirty minutes before the movie started was what I love about being a nerd. Because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. We don't have to be like, 'Oh yeah that purse is okay' or like, 'Yeah, I like that band's early stuff.' Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can't-control-yourself-love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they are saying is, 'You like stuff', which is just not a good insult at all, like 'You are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness'.”

As quoted from Hank Green http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Green on his Twitter feed http://twitter.com/#!/hankgreen YouTube

“Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.”

Harry Potter Nerds Win at Life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMweXVWB918 YouTube

John Green book Paper Towns

Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 8
Paper Towns (2008)

“Maybe all the strings inside him broke.”

John Green book Paper Towns

Margo Roth Spiegelman, p. 4
Paper Towns (2008)

“Luck is for suckers.”

“Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”

Alaska Young, p. 113
Looking for Alaska (2005)

“My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.”

Alaska Young, p. 44
Looking for Alaska (2005)

“You gave me forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.”

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“It hurt like the worst ass-kicking he'd ever gotten. And he'd gotten plenty.”

Source: Looking for Alaska

John Green book An Abundance of Katherines

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

“So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that's not what I actually needed. What I needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered.”