We all romanticize the people we adore.
John Green
May 7th, 2013
December 9th, 2012
You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
John Green
November 30th, 2012
I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species.
John Green
November 26th, 2012
You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
John Green
June 27th, 2012
I love being in cities with lots of other people, because I’m reminded that there are billions of people like me, and we are each stuck inside of our minds, feverishly trying to crawl out to make connections with other people.
John Green
May 16th, 2012
You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
John Green, David Levithan
May 9th, 2012
In my recent experience, I’d say hurt tends to drown out sorry.
John Green
April 27th, 2012
That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.
John Green
March 29th, 2012
John Green - Wrong but Right and Pantsless in Amsterdam: Thoughts from Places [video]
“And as my brain drowned in jet lag I thought of the months I lived here. So much of that time I was sick and crippled with anxiety but all I could think about now, as night fell, was how much you can love made-up people and how much you can miss them.”
- John Green
March 1st, 2012
I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.
John Green
February 3rd, 2012
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.
John Green
October 17th, 2011
I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. 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 hurricane.
John Green
June 6th, 2011
When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.
John Green (Looking for Alaska)
