"There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered and all of this will have been for naught."

— John Green 

"Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting."
- John Green

"Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than 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