John Green

The opportunity of studying history, is the opportunity to experience empathy.

Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off."Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. "You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.

History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they__e processes _ that for tens of thousands of years, people have been making decisions that irrevocably shaped the world that we live in today; just as today, we are making subtle, irrevocable decisions that people of the future will remember as revolutions.

Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you__e a nerd is like saying, __ey, I notice that you__ rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you__ rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that?

Sometimes people don__ understandthe promises they__e making when they make them,_ I said.Isaac shot me a look. __ight, of course.But you keep the promise anyway. That__what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway. Don__ you believe in true love?

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

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting.

Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we__e reading about, while reading about them. That__ why there is symbols in books and why your English teacher deserves your attention. Ultimately, it doesn__ matter if the author intended the symbol to be there because the job of reading is not to understand the author__ intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as a we ourselves.

I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, 'I'm busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do.' WHATEVER! READ! I mean, you're watching CSI: Miami. Why would you be watching CSI: Miami, when you could be READING CSI: Miami, the novelization?

How can you read and talk at the same time?_ I asked.__ell, I usually can__, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

Imagine others complexly.

Because you__e beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.' A brief awkward silence ensued. Augustus plowed through: 'I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything.

She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth.""Um, okay. So what is it?""Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

What?" I asked."Nothing," he said."Why are you looking at me like that?"Augustus half smiled. "Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.