15 Quotes By John Green

Book	Quote
“The Fault in Our Stars”	“Okay? Okay.”
“Looking for Alaska”	“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.”
“Paper Towns”	“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
“Turtles All the Way Down”	“Your now is not your forever.”
“An Abundance of Katherines”	“The moral of the story is that you can’t just make yourself stop being hurt. At least, I can’t.”
“Will Grayson, Will Grayson”	“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.”
“Let It Snow” (co-authored with Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle)	“I told her that the best time to write is either in the morning or late at night.”
“The Abundance of Katherines”	“What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?”
“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.”
“An Abundance of Katherines”	“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.”

Book	Quote
“Looking for Alaska”	“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.”
“The Fault in Our Stars”	“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
“Paper Towns”	“What’s the point of being able to forgive, when we can’t choose to forget?”
“Turtles All the Way Down”	“We are not, after all, mutually exclusive.”
“Will Grayson, Will Grayson”	“I wish you could be kissed, Jane,’ he said. ‘Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.’ He flailed an arm toward the stars.”