Frases de John Green

„Somos tan indestructibles como queramos creerlo.“

—  John Green, libro Buscando a Alaska

Buscando a Alaska

„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.“

—  John Green, libro Ciudades de papel

Ciudades de papel

„Todo mundo debería tener amor verdadero y debería durar como mínimo toda la vida.“

—  John Green, libro Bajo la misma estrella

Bajo la misma estrella

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

—  John Green, libro Bajo la misma estrella

Bajo la misma estrella

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

—  John Green, libro Bajo la misma estrella

Bajo la misma estrella

„El mundo no fue creado para el hombre sino que el hombre fue creado para el mundo.“

—  John Green, libro Bajo la misma estrella

Bajo la misma estrella

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

—  John Green

„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."“

—  John Green, libro Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Will Grayson, p. 1 (opening words)
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010)

„I’m a good person but a shitty writer. You’re a shitty person but a good writer. We’d make a good team. I don’t want to ask you any favors, but if you have time – and from what I saw, you have plenty – I was wondering if you could write a eulogy for Hazel. I’ve got notes and everything, but if you could just make it into a coherent whole or whatever? Or even just tell me what I should say differently. Here’s the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease. I want to leave a mark. But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you think, “They’ll remember me now,” but (a) they don’t remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion. (Okay, maybe I’m not such a shitty writer. But I can’t pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.) We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can’t stop pissing on fire hydrants. I know it’s silly and useless – epically useless in my current state – but I am an animal like any other. Hazel is different. She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. Hazel knows the truth: We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either. People will say it’s sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it’s not sad, Van Houten. It’s triumphant. It’s heroic. Isn’t that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm. The real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn’t actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn’t get smallpox. After my PET scan lit up, I snuck into the ICU and saw her while she was unconscious. I just walked in behind a nurse with a badge and I got to sit next to her for like ten minutes before I got caught. I really thought she was going to die, too. It was brutal: the incessant mechanized haranguing of intensive care. She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was still her hand, still warm and the nails painted this almost black dark almost blue color, and I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar. A nurse guy came in and told me I had to leave, that visitors weren’t allowed, and I asked if she was doing okay, and the guy said, “She’s still taking on water.”“

—  John Green, libro Bajo la misma estrella

A desert blessing, an ocean curse. What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers."
Augustus "Gus" Waters, p. 310-313
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

„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."“

—  John Green, libro An Abundance of Katherines

Hollis Wells and Hassan Harbish, p. 62
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

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

—  John Green, libro Bajo la misma estrella

Hazel Grace Lancaster, p. 125
Compare Ernest Hemingway, speaking about the process of going bankrupt: "'Gradually and then suddenly.'"
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

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

—  John Green, libro Bajo la misma estrella

Augustus "Gus" Waters, p. 63
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

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

—  John Green, libro Ciudades de papel

Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 282
Paper Towns (2008)

„[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.“

—  John Green

John Reviews Twilight and New Moon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkoBoF9FDXg
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„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.“

—  John Green

Nov. 26th: Writing Advice (And Notes on Surnameless Tiffany) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gf69J1Go98&feature=channel
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„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."“

—  John Green, libro Ciudades de papel

Lacey Pemberton, pp. 255-256
Paper Towns (2008)

„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.“

—  John Green, libro Ciudades de papel

Marcus "Radar" Lincoln, p. 258
Paper Towns (2008)

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

—  John Green, libro Ciudades de papel

Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 16
Paper Towns (2008)

„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.“

—  John Green

Health Care Overhaul Summarized Via Massive Pig http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z_RVl-ph3s
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