Frases de John Green (129 citas)

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)

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

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John Green libro Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Will Grayson, p. 260
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010)

“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.”

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John Green libro Buscando a Alaska

Miles "Pudge" Halter about Alaska Young, p. 88
Looking for Alaska (2005)

“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."”

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John Green libro An Abundance of Katherines

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

“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."”

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John Green libro Will Grayson, Will Grayson

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

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

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John Green libro Buscando a Alaska

Miles "Pudge" Halter, p. 218
Looking for Alaska (2005)

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

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John Green libro Bajo la misma estrella

Fuente: The Fault in Our Stars

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

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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."”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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

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

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John Green libro Ciudades de papel

Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 257
Paper Towns (2008)

“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.”

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John Green libro Ciudades de papel

Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 3
Paper Towns (2008)

“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.”

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John Green libro Buscando a Alaska

Dr. Hyde explaining a quote by Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, p. 174
Looking for Alaska (2005)

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

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John Green libro Buscando a Alaska

Miles "Pudge" Halter, p. 218
Looking for Alaska (2005)

“Love is the most common miracle”

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John Green libro Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Will Grayson, p. 192
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010)

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

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Love and Romance Questions Answered http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y49IXavVDE YouTube

“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.”

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John Green libro Ciudades de papel

Margo Roth Spiegelman, p. 41
Paper Towns (2008)

“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."”

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John Green libro An Abundance of Katherines

Hassan Harbish and Lindsey Wells, p. 214
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

“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.”

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John Green libro Bajo la misma estrella

Hazel Grace Lancaster, p. 139
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

“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.”

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John on a story he wrote when he was in elementary school Nov. 26th: Writing Advice (And Notes on Surnameless Tiffany) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gf69J1Go98&feature=channel YouTube

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

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John Green libro Buscando a Alaska

Alaska Young, p. 82
Looking for Alaska (2005)

“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.”

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John Green libro Bajo la misma estrella

Hazel Grace Lancaster, p. 260
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

“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?”

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How to Make Guys Like You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFiApf_m4H0 YouTube