And then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula, so I could smell better, breathing him and out, the scent fading even as I lay there, my chest burning until I couldn't distinguish among the pains.

— John Green

(...) and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death was Augustus Water.

— John Green

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.

— John Green

And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room, and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.

— John Green

And we'll call you...Hamm. Judge."" Huh?"" Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Judge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right.

— John Green

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

A nonhot boy stares at you, and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy...well.

— John Green

Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.

— John Green

A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.

— John Green

Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory.

— John Green