Frases de John Green

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“¿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…”

“People just liked Hassan, the way people like fast food and celebrities.”

“[M]aybe the strings break, or maybe our ships sink, or maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. If you choose the strings, then you're imagining a world in which you can become irreparably broken. If you choose the grass, you're saying that we are all infinitely interconnected, that we can use these root systems not only to understand one another but to become one another. The metaphors have implications.”

“You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.”

“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.”

“People die. That’s true in novels, and it’s true in life. Dying is one of the very few things we all do. To deny or ignore the omnipresent reality of death seems to me a disservice to human beings. That said, acknowledging in my novels that death exists does not make me a murderer any more than acknowledging that cancer can be treated makes me an oncologist.”

“Colin believed that the world contained exactly two kinds of people: Dumpers and Dumpees. A lot of people will claim to be both, but those people miss the point entirely: You are predisposed to either one fate or the other. Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.”

“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”

“I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.”

“God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.”

“Missing her kept him awake more than the coffee.”

“I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I've never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero's errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.”

“But mothers lie. It's in the job description.”

“There is no them, there are only facets of us.”

“Hank, before I move forward with this discussion, I should acknowledge that as a child I was an inveterate liar… As opposed to now, when I am a novelist.”

“Green, John. (2012). The Fault in Our Stars. New York, New York: Penguin Group, 313..”

“The Colonel ran ahead of me, gleeful at his ejection, and I jogged after him, trailing in his wake. I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.”

“Good morning Hank. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking: 'My older brother really needs a haircut!' Well, Hank, I've got one thing to say to that. Never!”

“Prick us, we bleed. Prick him, he pops.”

“I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met.”

“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”

“He'd never been all that good at math, but he was a goddamned world-famous expert in getting dumped.”

“If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.”

“"And we'll call you… hmmm. Pudge."
"Huh?"
"Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right."”

“Never go to war with a noun. You will always lose.”

“When people have to choose between civilization and warm genitals, they choose warm genitals”

“Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe wants something important to happen to him, even if the important thing is horrible. It is not the disgust of seeing a dead stranger, and not the breathlessness of hearing a shotgun pumped outside of Becca Arrington's house. This cannot be addressed by breathing exercises. This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.”

“Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read that book.”

“It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don't care if that mark is a scar.”

“I mean Hank, the movie was great, but the thirty minutes before the movie started was what I love about being a nerd. Because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. We don't have to be like, 'Oh yeah that purse is okay' or like, 'Yeah, I like that band's early stuff.' Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can't-control-yourself-love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they are saying is, 'You like stuff', which is just not a good insult at all, like 'You are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness'.”