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.“My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations” – The Fault In Our Stars
2. “It is so hard to leave – until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.” – Paper Towns
3. “There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.” – An Abundance of Katherines
4. “Those awful things are survivable because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.” – Looking for Alaska
5. “Great books help you understand, and they help you to feel understood.” – John Green
6. “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” – 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 don’t care if that mark is a scar.” – The Fault In Our Stars
8. “You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.” – An Abundance of Katherines
9. “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.” – The Fault In Our Stars
10. “I’ve always liked quiet people: You never know if they’re dancing in a daydream or if they’re carrying the weight of the world.” – Looking for Alaska
11. “Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are” – Paper Towns
12.“Maybe okay will be our always.” – The Fault In Our Stars
13. “He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment – because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.” – An Abundance of Katherines
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14. “That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.” – The Fault In Our Stars
15. “It hurts because it matters.” – Will Grayson, Will Grayson
16. “That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.” – Paper Towns
17. “My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations” – The Fault In Our Stars
18. “I can’t tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity.” – The Fault In Our Stars
19. “You 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.” – Looking For Alaska
20. “I’m starting to realize people lack good mirrors. It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.” – Paper Towns
21. “The marks humans leave are too often scars” – The Fault In Our Stars
22. “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” – Looking For Alaska
23. “Anybody can look at you. It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.” – Turtles All The Way Down
24. “It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.” – Looking For Alaska
25. “I’m not sure if I’m depressed. I mean, I’m not exactly sad. But I’m not exactly happy either. I can laugh and joke and smile during the day. But sometimes when I’m alone at night I forget how to feel.” – 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.” ― The Fault In Our Stars
27. “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.” ― John Green
28. “It’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.” ― The Fault in Our Stars
29. “Writing 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.” ― Thoughts from Places: The Tour
30. “When 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.”― John Green, Will Greyson
31. “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
32. “But isn’t 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.” — Paper Towns
33. “You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” ― John Green
34. “The marks humans leave are too often scars.” ― The Fault in Our Stars
35. “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.” ― An Abundance of Katherines
36. “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.” ― The Fault in Our Stars
37. “At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.” ― Looking for Alaska
38. “If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all” – Paper Towns
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