My interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable. My interest is in trying to reflect the reality of experience - how we feel when we talk to each other, how we feel when we're engaging with questions that interest us.

John Green

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Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understoo... by John Green

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

understanding reading book

You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you... by John Green

You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.

forgiveness inspirational love

I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are... by John Green

I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

inspirational love life

I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Inf... by John Green

I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

goofy infinite looks

Love is keeping the promise anyway. by John Green

Love is keeping the promise anyway.

keeping-promises love-is life

You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as m... by John Green

You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

moving-on break-up i-miss-you

The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy. by John Green

The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.

hipster crazy hope

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.

inspirational life thinking

The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should b... by John Green

The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly.

tongue used powerful

I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.

things-that-matter matter feels

Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That... by John Green

Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.

smart nice hot

Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortable as possible? What should a story seek to emulate, Augustus? A ringing alarm? A call to arms? A morphine drip? Of course, like all interrogation of the universe, this line of inquiry inevitably reduces us to asking what it means to be human and whether—to borrow a phrase from the angst-encumbered sixteeen-year-olds you no doubt revile—there is a point to it all.

struggle mean art

If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. by John Green

If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.

hipster towns motivational

The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels ass... by John Green

The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't.

assured feels past

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And i... by John Green

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

college stupid years

...whatever you're worried about, you're bigger than the worries. by John Green

...whatever you're worried about, you're bigger than the worries.

worried bigger worry

Life works best when we think of people as people. by John Green

Life works best when we think of people as people.

people thinking

We all use the future to escape the present. by John Green

We all use the future to escape the present.

imagining-the-future alaska life

Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.

blow kids children

What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

trying believe thinking