“I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but t...” — John Green Quote

“I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.”

“Nineteenth-century preacher Henry Ward Beecher's last words were "Now comes the mystery." The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at least as much as Alaska, said, "I've had eighteen straight whiskeys. I do believe that's a record," before dying. Alaska's favorite was playwright Eugene O'Neill: "Born in a hotel room, and--God damn it--died in a hotel room." Even car-accident victims sometimes have time for last words. Princess Diana said, "Oh God. What's happened?" Movie star James Dean said, "They've got to see us," just before slamming his Porsche into another car. I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.”

“What the hell is that?" I laughed.”

“I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.”

“I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.”

“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.”

“To wit: actions, like sounds, divide the flow of time into beats.[...]The quality of a man's life depends on the rhyhmic structure he is able to impose upon the input and output of energy.”

“Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.”

“Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.”

“God is not limited by time. He works in his own timing.”

“Surely even those immune from the world, for the time being, need the touch of one another, or all is lost.”