From John Green's Paper Towns
“The longest day of my life began tardily.”
“When I was little, my dad used to tell me, ‘Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.'”
From John Green and David Levithan’s Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“It was the night before Christmas.”
From Maureen Johnson, John Green, and Lauren Myracle’s Let It Snow.
“At the time I first realized I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at a publicly funded institution on the north side of Indianapolis called White River High School, where I was required to eat lunch at a particular time–between 12:37 P.M. and 1:14 P.M.–by forces so much larger than myself that I couldn’t even begin to identify them.”
From John Green's Turtles All the Way Down.
“The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party.”
From John Green's Looking for Alaska.
”Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.”
From John Green's The Fault In Our Stars.
“The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath.”
From John Green’s An Abundance of Katherines.
First Sentence of a New World 