But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying? John Green More Quotes by John Green More Quotes From John Green Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions. John Green companionladdersbook To be human is to catch the falling person. John Green hipsterhumansfall When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life. John Green unforgivableeasierlike-you We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either. John Green hazel-gracehurthelping You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect. John Green realwritingdeath Home is Where the Heart Is, Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget. True Love is Born from Hard Times. John Green good-friendhomeheart But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does. John Green realromanticbelieve If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything. John Green augustusgreater-goodmean Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me. John Green gusrealstories She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was still her hand, still warm and the nails painted this almost black dark blue and I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar. John Green cancerfalling-in-loveeye No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around. John Green swing-setsmatterway All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing. John Green graceforeveryears People thought he was a glutton for punishment, that he liked getting dumped. But it wasn't like that. He could just never see anything coming, and as he lay on the solid, uneven ground with Hassan pressing too hard on his forehead, Colin Singleton's distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible. John Green distanceglassesreal This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again. John Green first-timehappensfirsts Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's something you just are. John Green you-choose And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying. John Green dyingsidesworry I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other. John Green looking-for-alaska-bookbad-boyfriendgirlfriend Imagine others complexly. John Green imagine Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death. John Green motherwinterbook There is no try. There is only do. John Green trying
