Only a handful of authors are able to put together love, hope, and life in one single story, John Michael Green is one of them. There’s something about the way John Green puts together words that leave an everlasting impression on your mind; words you can hold close to your heart.
The author of the famous best-selling novels, his words always hold that much power which beautifully expresses our deepest emotions. Especially in a world where being emotional is considered a weakness, John Green’s quotes never fail to sink deep into the most unexplored parts of our hearts.
Some of his greatest works like ‘Looking For Alaska‘, ‘Paper Towns‘ and ‘The Fault In Our Stars‘ have been adapted onto the big screen and are really worth watching. Each story will wash you over with waves of emotions that will either make you weep or stir your soul with tender romance, or maybe both.
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Here Are The Most Soul-Stirring Quotes By John Green:
1.โMy thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellationsโ – The Fault In Our Stars
2. โIt is so hard to leave – until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.โ – Paper Towns
3. โThereโs some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.โ – An Abundance of Katherines
4. โThose awful things are survivable because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.โ – Looking for Alaska
5. “Great books help you understand, and they help you to feel understood.” – John Green
6. โAs he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.โ – The Fault In Our Stars
7. “It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they donโt care if that mark is a scar.” – The Fault In Our Stars
8. โYou donโt remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.โ – An Abundance of Katherines
9. โGrief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.โ – The Fault In Our Stars
10. โIโve always liked quiet people: You never know if theyโre dancing in a daydream or if theyโre carrying the weight of the world.โ – Looking for Alaska
11. โJust remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isnโt the way they actually areโ – Paper Towns
12.โMaybe okay will be our always.โ – The Fault In Our Stars
13. โHe wanted to draw out the moment before the moment – because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.โ – An Abundance of Katherines
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14. โThat’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.โ – The Fault In Our Stars
15. “It hurts because it matters.” – Will Grayson, Will Grayson
16. โThatโs always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because theyโre pretty. Itโs like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.โ – Paper Towns
17. โMy thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellationsโ – The Fault In Our Stars
18. โI canโt tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity.โ – The Fault In Our Stars
19. โYou spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape 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.โ – Looking For Alaska
20. โIโm starting to realize people lack good mirrors. Itโs so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.โ – Paper Towns
21. โThe marks humans leave are too often scarsโ – The Fault In Our Stars
22. โThe only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.โ – Looking For Alaska
23. “Anybody can look at you. Itโs quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.” โ Turtles All The Way Down
24. โIt always shocked me when I realized that I wasnโt the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.โ – Looking For Alaska
25. โIโm not sure if Iโm depressed. I mean, Iโm not exactly sad. But Iโm not exactly happy either. I can laugh and joke and smile during the day. But sometimes when Iโm alone at night I forget how to feel.โ – John Green
26. “You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world…but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.” โ The Fault In Our Stars
27. โMaybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.โ โ John Green
28. โIt’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.โ โ The Fault in Our Stars
29. โWriting is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don’t want to make eye contact while doing it.” โ Thoughts from Places: The Tour
30. โWhen things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It’s because a little piece gets lost – the two remaining ends couldn’t fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.”โ John Green, Will Greyson
31. โAs he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.โ
โ The Fault in Our Stars
32. “But isnโt 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.” โ Paper Towns
33. โYou can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.โ โ John Green
34. โThe marks humans leave are too often scars.โ โ The Fault in Our Stars
35. โBooks are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and theyโll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.โ โ An Abundance of Katherines
36. โSome infinities are bigger than other infinities.โ โ The Fault in Our Stars
37. โAt some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.โ โ Looking for Alaska
38. โIf you donโt imagine, nothing ever happens at allโ – Paper Towns
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