{"author":"John Green","author_id":"John+Green","total_quotes":729,"quotes":[{"text":"He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was.","author":"John Green","tags":["men","personality"],"id":527,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.","author":"John Green","tags":["fiction","mystery","nerdfighters","ya","young-adult"],"id":1724,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"The silence broke:'Sometimes I liked it', I said 'Sometimes I liked it that she was dead.'You mean it felt good?'No. I don't know. It felt ... Pure.","author":"John Green","tags":["sadness"],"id":2483,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too.","author":"John Green","tags":["expectations","mental-illness"],"id":2979,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.","author":"John Green","tags":["hope"],"id":3060,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"Me: “I refuse to attend Support Group.”Mom: “One of the symptoms of depression is disinterest in activities.”Me: “Please just let me watch America’s Next Top Model. It’s an activity.”Mom: “Television is a passivity.”Me: “Ugh, Mom, please.”Mom: “Hazel, you’re a teenager. You’re not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.”Me: “If you want me to be a teenager, don’t send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot.”Mom: “You don’t take pot, for starters.”Me: “See, that’s the kind of thing I’d know if you got me a fake ID.”Mom: “You’re going to Support Group.”Me: “UGGGGGGGGGGGGG.”Mom: “Hazel, you deserve a life.","author":"John Green","tags":["family","life","teenagers"],"id":3378,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn't see it again, and it occured to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.","author":"John Green","tags":["desire","dreams","hazel-grace"],"id":3589,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"She said she couldn't handle it,’ he told me. ‘I’m about to lose my eyesight and she can’t handle it.’I was thinking about the word handle, and all the unholdable things that get handled. . . .'Well, to be fair,' I said, 'I mean, she probably can't handle it. Neither can you, but she doesn't have to handle it. And you do.''I kept saying “always” to her today, “always always always”, and she just kept talking over me and not saying it back. It was like I was already gone, you know? “Always” was a promise! How can you just break a promise?''Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them', I said.Isaac shot me a look. ‘Right, of course. But you keep them anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promises anyway. Don’t you believe in true love?’I didn’t answer. I didn’t have an answer. But I thought that if true love did exist, that was a pretty good definition of it.","author":"John Green","tags":["depression","true-love"],"id":3810,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"Jeb is going to grow up to be the kind of man who spends his Saturdays teaching his little boy to ride a bike. (...) Charlie, on the other hand, will be off playing golf while his kid kills people on his Xbox. Charlie will be dashing and debonair, and he'll buy his kid all kinds of crap, but he'll never actually be there.","author":"John Green","tags":["deep","responsibility"],"id":4705,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.","author":"John Green","tags":["death","unfair"],"id":4800,"author_id":"John+Green"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":729,"pages":73,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}