If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurrica... - John Green

"Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid."

"It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a whole different person."

"I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr."

"Nerd life is just so much better than regular life."

"I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps."