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“I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
― John Green

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“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, An Abundance of Katherines

“Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“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, Looking for Alaska

“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“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

“Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it.”
― John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.”
― John Green

“I have spent my life falling. Not the kind that Tiny's talking about. He's talking about love. I'm talking about life. In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“That smile could end wars and cure cancer.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“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.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Truth resists simplicity.”
― John Green

“I don't really want to be the costar of anyone's life.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.”
― John Green

“I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Because memories fall apart, too. And you're left with nothing.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska