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41 Achingly Beautiful John Green Quotes On Life And Love

A collection of heartwarming and equally heartbreaking quotes on life and love from John Green, the New York Times bestselling author of <em style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman",
Marisa Donnelly
July 18, 2016
“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: getting hurt, determined, sure, being sure
“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Hope, hopeless, broken, inspiration, inspire
“You gave me a forever within the numbered days. For that, I am grateful.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Love
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
— John Green, Fault In Our Stars
Tagged: Love, Falling In Love
“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Quote, Thomas Edison, Beautiful, travel, Explore, Somewhere
“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a  person. ”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: People, Idealism, Love, Relationships, Fantasy, Falling In Love With The Idea Of Someone, Illusion, Disillusionment, INFP, ENFP
“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“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.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Passionate People, Intense People, Living With Intensity, Longing To Be Someone Else
“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. 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. ”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Love, Looking At Her, Sleeping, Innocence, Crush, Childlike Love, Innocent Love
“True love will triumph in the end - which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Love, Triumph, Beautiful Lie
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: forgiveness, Peace Of Mind, Anger
“I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.”
— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Tagged: Fathers, Family, proud, Parents
“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, David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships
“I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater. But he wasn't crying. Curiously, he felt too depressed to cry. Too hurt. It felt as if shed taken the part of him that cried. ”
— Colin, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: Crying, Loss, Depression, Pain, break ups
“The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you in the very quick and quiet way that she had always said it. She said I love you as if it were a secret, and an immense one.”
— Colin, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: Crying, Loss, Depression, Pain, break ups, Saying I Love You, After A Break Up, Love, Feeling of love
“I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Perfect Words
“The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: First Lines, first lines of books
“My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”
— Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Thoughts, Stars, Metaphor, Lyrical Language, My Favorites
“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: My Favorites, Pain, Human Connections, Human Connection, Scars
“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: Leaving, Leaving Home, Moving On, Saying Goodbye, My Favorites
“Those awful things are survivable because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: surviving, Moving On, Overcoming Obstacles, Overcoming, strength
“You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
— John Green, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: Memory, Experience, What Happened, The Past
“Grief does not change you...It reveals you.”
— Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Pain, Human Connections, Scars, Grief, On Grief
“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, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: kiss, Kissing, Moments Before, Moments Before Kissing, Before The Kiss, Love, My Favorites
“That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.”
— Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: My Favorites, Pain, Feeling, Emotion
“You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them.”
— John Green, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: Love, Missing You, Letting Go, Missing Someone, Pain, Heartbreak
“I can’t tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: My Favorites, Little Infinity, Infinity, Forever, Love, Expiring Love, Pain
“I’m starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: Mirrors, Seeing Yourself, Truth, Being Truthful
“Maybe okay will be our always.”
— Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: My Favorites, Love, Always, Forever Love, Expiring Love