Nerd life is just so much better than regular life. - John Green

"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."

"Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you."

"Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting."

"We all romanticize the people we adore."

"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."