{"quotes":[{"text":"You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us.","author":"John Green","tags":["john-green","kids","teen","turtles-all-the-way-down"],"id":5508,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about.","author":"John Green","tags":["augustus","augustus-waters","dead","hazel","hazel-grace","hazel-grace-lancaster","john-green","people","tfios","the-fault-in-our-stars"],"id":15660,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal.","author":"John Green","tags":["books","john-green","reading","the-fault-in-our-stars"],"id":16708,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?","author":"John Green","tags":["john-green","leaving","paper-towns","sad"],"id":16770,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.","author":"John Green","tags":["an-abundance-of-katherines","inspiration","john-green","life"],"id":29713,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic.","author":"John Green","tags":["john-green","journey","the-fault-in-our-stars"],"id":30766,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.","author":"John Green","tags":["cancer","john-green","support-group","tfios"],"id":45397,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch me—oh, god!","author":"John Green","tags":["enemies","humor","john-green","squirrels"],"id":53092,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"I'd pick you, I say. Fuck it, I do pick you. I want you to come over to my house in twenty years with your dud and your adopted kids and I want our fucking kids to hang out and I want to, like, drink wine and talk about the Middle East or whatever the fuck we're gonna want to do when we're old. We've been friends too long to pick, but if we could pick, I'd pick you.","author":"John Green","tags":["chapter-17","david-levithan","friendship","john-green","page-260","will-grayson-will-grayson"],"id":63507,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"...There are books...Which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.","author":"John Green","tags":["fiction","hazel","john-green","protagonist","the-fault-in-our-stars"],"id":85791,"author_id":"John+Green"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":74,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}