john green

“ 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. ”

“ If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does. ”

“ And then there are books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal. ”

“ And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart. ”

“ From 'Twilight' to 'Romeo And Juliet' to 'The Little Mermaid', no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories. ”

“ That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of. ”

“ He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. ”

“ I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer. ”

“ Reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else. ”

“ Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my sentimentality. ”