But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open.
-- John Green ("Introduction")

Importance: Here, Green puts forward the purpose of this book, which is to pay particular attention to the ordinary objects, places, and experiences that make up a human life and to evaluate it for what it means to the individual person beholding it. When he says he wants the world to 'crack' him 'open,' Green implies that the act of recording these reviews requires a great deal of vulnerability which will penetrate his outer persona and get at what is really inside him, being felt.

It's easy to forget how wondrous humans are, how strange and lovely.
-- John Green ("Humanity's Temporal Range")

Importance: In this quote, Green's sentimental tone comes through clearly, demonstrating how poetic the book can be, at times, and how its purpose is to record the doings and observations of a human being who is just...