Frases de John Green

“¿Qué demonios es un instante? Nada es un instante. El arroz instantáneo toma cinco minutos, un budín instantáneo una hora. Dudo que un instante de dolor cegador se sienta particularmente instantáneo.”

“Los verdaderos héroes no son los que hacen cosas, los verdaderos héroes son los que observan las cosas, los que le prestan atención.”

“Es tan probable que hagamos daño al mundo como que lo ayudemos, y seguramente no haremos ninguna de las dos.”

“Podría girarme, y ella también podría girarse. Y podríamos besarnos. Pero ¿qué sentido tiene besarla ahora? Es algo que no irá a ninguna parte. Los dos contemplamos el cielo sin nubes.”

“Algunas veces lees un libro, sientes un extraño afán evangelizador y estás convencido de que este desastrado mundo no se recuperará hasta que todos los seres humanos lo lean. Y luego están los libros como Un dolor imperial, de los que no puedes hablar con nadie, libros tan especiales, escasos y tuyos que revelar el cariño que les tienes parece una traición”

“Incluso si podía verla a ella ahí, me sentía completamente solo entre todos esos grandes y vacíos edificios, como si hubiera sobrevivido a un apocalipsis y como si el mundo se me hubiese dado, este gran, maravilloso e infinito mundo, para que yo lo explorara.”

“La cogía de la mano e intentaba imaginar el mundo sin nosotros, y por un segundo fui lo bastante buena persona para esperar que se muriera y así nunca llegara a enterarse de que yo me moría también. Pero después quise más tiempo para que pudiéramos enamorarnos. He conseguido mi deseo, supongo, y he dejado mi cicatriz”

“Sentía lo injusto que era eso, la injusticia indiscutible de amar a alguien que pudo haberte amado de vuelta, pero no puede porque está ahora muerto.”

“A finales del invierno de mi decimoséptimo año de vida, mi madre llegó a la conclusión de que estaba deprimida, seguramente porque apenas salía de casa, pasaba mucho tiempo en la cama, leía el mismo libro una y otra vez, casi nunca comía y dedicaba buena parte de mi abundante tiempo libre a pensar en la muerte..”

“Y sentí que las lineas de su vida y de la mía se extendían desde nuestra cuna hasta el tipo muerto, desde que nos conocimos hasta ese momento. y quise decirle que para mi el placer no era planificar, hacer o no hacer. el placer era observar nuestros hilos cruzándose, separándose y volviéndose a juntar.”

“Es el miedo que hizo que los peces salieran del agua y desarrollaran pulmones, el miedo que nos enseña a correr, el miedo que hace que enterremos a nuestros muertos.”

“Somos tan indestructibles como queramos creerlo.”

“Me diste un para siempre dentro de días numerados.”

“Cuando las personas tienen que elegir entre civilización y genitales cálidos, eligen genitales cálidos”

“¡Dios mio!, no quiero ser una de esas personas que se sientan y hablan de lo que van a hacer. Simplemente voy a hacerlo. Imaginar el futuro es una especie de nostalgia”

“Irás a las ciudades de papel y nunca más volverás.”

“Ese algo más profundo y más secreto. Son como grietas dentro de ti. Como líneas defectuosas en las que las cosas no encajan bien🍃☁️”

“Cuando dejas de desear que las cosas no se derrumben, dejas de sufrir cuando lo hacen.”

“La "vida después de la vida" es solo algo que inventamos para aminorar el dolor de la pérdida, para volver soportable nuestro tiempo en el laberinto”

“Hazel Grace. Sería un privilegio que mi corazón fuera roto por ti.”

“Si tan solo pudiéramos ver la ola de interminables consecuencias que resultan de nuestras acciones más pequeñas. Pero no podemos saber qué es mejor hasta que el saber se vuelve inútil.”

“Esta es una oportunidad que puede que no tenga nuevamente. Nunca. Incluso si el medicamento está funcionando, no entiendo por qué…”

“Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are.”

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”

“The moment Colin sat down, Hollis asked Hassan, "Would you like to say grace?"
"Sure thing." Hassan cleared his throat. "Bismallah." Then he picked up his fork.
"That's it?" Hollis wondered.
"That's it. We are a terse people. Terse, and also hungry."”

“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."”

“I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.”

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world… but you do have a say in who hurts you.”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once.”

“That's the thing about pain," Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. "It demands to be felt.”

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”

“[Twilight] argues that true love will triumph in the end, which may or may not be true, but if it's a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.”

“I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer. Because it's the only apprenticeship we have. It's the only way of learning how to write a story.”

“Lacey takes the bar from me and reluctantly bites into it. She has to close her eyes to hide the orgasmic pleasure inherent in GoFast-tasting. "Oh. My. God. That tastes like hope feels."”

“The thing about That Guy Is a Gigolo," Radar says, "I mean, the thing about it as a game, is that in the end it reveals a lot more about the person doing the imagining than it does about the person being imagined.”

“"Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds," I added.”

“Is health care a privilege, or is it a right? If it's a privilege, even if it's a really desirable privilege like indoor plumbing, we need to stop giving health care of any kind to uninsured people who can't pay for it in advance. But… …I think the reason we continue to treat people who are uninsured is because we don't believe that health care is a privilege. We believe that it is a right. And if it is a right, like life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it is the responsibility of a government to protect that right.”

“It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”

“The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightning, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. I could have seen it rain frogs. I could have stepped foot on Mars. I could have been eaten by a whale. I could have married the queen of England or survived months at sea. But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.”

“I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.”

“[We] had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth.”

“Love is the most common miracle”

“The Venn Diagram of guys who don't like smart girls and guys you don't want to date is a circle.”

“It's a penis," Margo said, "in the same sense that Rhode Island is a state: it may have an illustrious history, but it sure isn't big.”

“They'd just driven past the General Store when Hassan said, "We don't have to go to Hardee's really. We could go anywhere."
"Oh good because I really don't want to go to Hardee's," Lindsey said. "It's sort of horrible. There's a Wendy's two exits down the interstate, in Milan. Wendy's is way better. They have, like, salads."”

“The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.”

“So I guess the first thing I would say is: you need to write a story that, unlike my story, has a beginning, a middle and an end. Also the beginning shouldn't involve hating foxes and the end shouldn't involve no one liking you.”

“How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?”

“I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”

“The fourth way to get a boy to like you is to be yourself. Now, I am contractually obligated as an adult to give that advice, even though it doesn't work. But yeah, be yourself, even though no one has any idea what it means to be yourself. Like whose self would I otherwise be being?”

“The test will measure whether you are an informed, engaged and productive citizen of the world, and it will take place in schools and bars and hospitals and dorm-rooms and in places of worship. You will be tested on first dates, in job interviews, while watching football and while scrolling through your Twitter feed. The test will judge your ability to think about things other than celebrity marriages, whether you'll be easily persuaded by empty political rhetoric and whether you'll be able to place your life and your community in a broader context. The test will last your entire life, and it will be comprised of the millions of decisions that, when taken together, make your life yours. And everything - everything - will be on it.”