…myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

About John Green

John Michael Green (born August 24, 1977) is an American author and YouTuber. His books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide, including The Fault in Our Stars (2012), which is one of the best-selling books of all time. Green's rapid rise to fame and idiosyncratic voice are...

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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

—John Green

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives.

—John Green

We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths.

—John Green

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

—John Green

I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they do it over and over again for months when they figure it out, and how basketball was basically just a slightly more aerobic version of that same exercise.

—John Green

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...myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.