"When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out."
— John Green (Paper Towns)

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

"Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way."
— John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)

"It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things."
— John Green

"I restore myself when I'm alone."
— Marilyn Monroe

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"I tasted life."
— Emily Dickinson

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

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

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin

""Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page," Radar said. "For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris specializes in the roundhouse kick, I don't think it's accurate to say, 'Chuck Norris's tears can cure cancer, but unfortunately he has never cried.'""
— John Green

"There is no Them. There are only facets of Us."
— John Green

"I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is."
— John Green (Paper Towns)

"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

"There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away."
— Dorothy Parker

"I don't like reindeer. They seem like regular deer, only more dangerous."
— John Green

"We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did."
— 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)

"On the morning in question, she wore white shorts and a pink T-shirt that featured a green dragon breathing a fire of orange glitter. It is difficult to explain how awesome I found this T-shirt at the time."
— John Green

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

"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 innocent 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 hurricane. "
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back."
— 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)

"...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 (Paper Towns)

"The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it. This teacher rocked. I hated discussion classes. I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn't sound dumb, and I hated how it was all just a game of trying to figure out what the teacher wanted to hear and then saying it. I'm in class, so teach me."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy"
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"To err is human - but it feels divine."
— Mae West

"When I'm good, I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
"
— Mae West - I'm No Angel

"Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile."
— Mae West

"I use to be Snow White, but I drifted."
— Mae West

" I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it."
— Mae West
"
— Mae West

"Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly."
— Mae West

"Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often."
— Mae West

"You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think."
— Mae West

"Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes."
— Mae West

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

"There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out."
— Mae West

"I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure."
— Mae West

"He who hesitates is a damned fool."
— Mae West

"If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything."
— Marilyn Monroe

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
— Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn: Her Life in Her Own Words)

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust noone but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
— Marilyn Monroe

"When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them."
— Marilyn Monroe

"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin,
but I am not the devil. I am just
a small girl in a big world trying to
find someone to love."
— Marilyn Monroe

"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on."
— Marilyn Monroe