"Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back."
— John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)

"When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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— ~Walt Disney~

"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"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."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"What the hell is that?" I laughed.
"It's my fox hat."
"Your fox hat?"
"Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat."
"Why are you wearing your fox hat?" I asked.
"Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps."
— John Green

"I try to live life so that I can live with myself."
— John Green

"You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them."
— John Green

"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?"
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"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)

"What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?"
— John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)

"I may die young, but at least I'll die smart."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it."
— John Green

"The Colonel led all the cheers.
"Cornbread!" he screamed.
"CHICKEN!" the crowd responded.
"Rice!"
"PEAS!"
And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER SATs."
"Hip Hip Hip Hooray!" the Colonel cried.
"YOU'LL BE WORKIN' FOR US SOMEDAY!""
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"That's why people grow weary of listening to Dumpees obsess over their troubles: getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring. They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afterward, you're devastated and they're relieved; it's over for them and just starting for you. And to Colin's mind, at least, there was a deeper repetition: each time, Katherines dumped him because they just didn't like him. They each came to precisely the same conclusion about him. He wasn't cool enough or good-looking enough or as smart as they'd hoped--in short, he didn't matter enough. And so it happened to him again and again, until it was boring. But monotony doesn't make for painlessness. In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in relationship to the monotony of dumping: we have thirty-two teeth. After a while, having each tooth individually destroyed probably gets repetitive, even dull. But it never stops hurting."
— John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)

"If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless."
— John Green

"“Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls.”

Pudge to Alaska- “Have you really read all those books in your room?”

Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read. But there is so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I’ll have more time for reading when I’m old and boring.'"
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"Lucky Charms are like the vampires of breakfast cereal. They're magical, they're delicious, they're a little bit dangerous and bad for you. They initially make you feel great, but then over time you realize that maybe your relationship with Lucky Charms is just a little bit unhealthy and you start to think, 'Maybe I don't want to be in a long-term relationship with a breakfast cereal that tastes delicious but damages my health.' But then the Lucky Charms gets all stalker on you and for some reason you kind of like that. It makes you feel special. So yeah, you spend your life with Lucky Charms. That's awesome. That's a great way to... get diabetes."
— John Green

"...because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you."
— John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)

""Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.""
— John Green

"and we're just chatting and then I'm in the middle of a sentence about analogies or something and like a hawk he reaches down and he honks my boob. HONK. A much-too-firm, two- to three-second HONK. And the first thing I thought was Okay, how do I extricate this claw from my boob before it leaves permanent marks? and the second thing I thought was God, I can't wait to tell Takumi and the Colonel.""
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"WE JUST DID AN AWESOME JOB OF NOT DYING"
— John Green (Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories)

"You're awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"I responded to this development with the kind of sophisticated language for which I am famous. "Crap crap crap crap crap crap crap stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid crap.""
— John Green (Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories)

""Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together."
"What?"
"Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud."
"That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of."
"The people who've been in your secret hiding places."
"The people you bite your thumb in front of."
"Hi."
"Hi."
"..."
"..."
"Wow. My first Lindsey."
"My second Colin."
"That was fun. Let's try it again."
"Sold."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"...""
— John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)

"Lady and gentleman, when my parents left Korea with nothing but the clothes on their backs and the considerable wealth they had amassed in the shipping business, they had a dream. They had a dream that one day amid the snowy hilltops of western North Carolina, their son would lose his virginity to a cheerleader in the woman's bathroom of a Waffle House just off the interstate. My parents have sacrificed so much for this dream! And that is why we must journey on, despite all trials and tribulations! Not for me and least of all for the poor cheerleader in question, but for my parents and indeed for all immigrants who came to his great nation in what they themselves could never have: CHEERLEADER SEX."
— John Green (Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories)

"There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale."
— Anna Godbersen (The Luxe)

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
— Walt Disney Company

"Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever."
— Walt Disney Company

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."
— Walt Disney Company

"If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse."
— Walt Disney Company

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
— Walt Disney Company

"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
— Walt Disney Company

"You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway"
— Walt Disney Company

"Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world."
— Walt Disney Company

"Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world."
— Walt Disney Company

"You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew." - Pocahontas"
— Walt Disney Company