John Green

I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to. ↗

— John Green

#love

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing. ↗

— John Green

#funny #writing #funny

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it. ↗

— John Green

#introverts #profession #story #storytelling #writing

We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers. ↗

— John Green

#paper-towns #mystery

You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus. ↗

— John Green

#names #perception #the-fault-in-our-stars #perception

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. ↗

— John Green

#the-fault-in-our-stars #the-fault-in-our-stars

But mothers lie. It's in the job description. ↗

— John Green

#mothers #mother

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

#stupid #stupidity

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies. ↗

— John Green

#true-love #love

I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should. ↗

— John Green

#die #love-story #death