Quote

He specialized in the murder of dreams, Hazel Grace.

John Green

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
Author
Businessperson
Critic
Editor
Film Producer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Podcaster
Singer
Indianapolis
Indiana
John Michael Green
Murder
Dreams
Grace
Dream
Hazel
Specialized

More quotes by John Green

Image
You never know. It's just. It's like. POOF. And you're gone.
John Green
Image
Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together.
John Green
Image
Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little bit, just as living the story changes me. An infinitesimal change. And that infinetisimal change ripples outward —ever smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter —maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.
John Green
Image
It's embarrassing that we all just walk through life blindly accepting that scrambled eggs are fundamentally associated with mornings.
John Green
Image
The amazing thing is that we're right to hold onto hope. The world may be broken but hope is not crazy.
John Green
Image
He let his mind wander. It went to a predictable place, and he missed her
John Green
Image
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.
John Green
Image
I'm not saying it was your fault. I'm saying it wasn't nice.
John Green
Image
How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.
John Green
Image
Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.
John Green
Image
I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.
John Green
Image
I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed to learn it: How. Why. When. Where. What.
John Green
Image
You're amazing, and I so want to be your boyfriend, because of what you just said, and also because that shirt makes me want to take you home and do unspeakable things while we watch live-action Sailor Moon videos
John Green
Image
But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.
John Green
Image
Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't.
John Green
Image
Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.
John Green
Image
I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting.
John Green
Image
We're not going to break anything. Don't think of it as breaking in to SeaWorld. Think of it as visiting SeaWorld in the middle of the night for free.
John Green
Image
At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.
John Green
Image
Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou
John Green