This Small Town Hipsters Literary Crush :)

John Green

"Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself." — John Green

"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)

"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive." — John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"The town was paper, but the memories were not." — John Green (Paper Towns)

"…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’." — John Green

"I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back." — John Green (Paper Towns)

"When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out." — John Green (Paper Towns)

"Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou" — John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)

"Because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you." — John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)

"The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real." — John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)

"If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?" — John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)

"The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence." — John Green (Paper Towns)