What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

- John Green

Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?

- John Green

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 some…

- John Green

You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

- John Green

We all use the future to escape the present.

- John Green

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

- John Green

I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

- John Green

I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all the small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. But, talking to you makes me …

- John Green

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