John Green cytaty

John Michael Green – amerykański pisarz gatunku young adult fiction; wideobloger.

W 2006 zdobył nagrodę Printz Award za debiut Szukając Alaski, w 2012 jego powieść Gwiazd naszych wina osiągnęła pierwsze miejsce na liście bestsellerów New York Timesa, a w 2014 została zekranizowana. Prowadzi wraz ze swoim bratem Hankiem konto na YouTube „VlogBrothers”, na którym powstało 11 serii zawierających „Crash Course” – kanał edukacyjny zawierający treści literatury, historii i fizyki oraz chemii. W roku 2014 został uznany przez magazyn Time za jedną ze 100 najbardziej wpływowych osób na świecie. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Sierpień 1977
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John Green słynne cytaty

„Rozumiem.”

Gwiazd naszych wina

„Boję się zapomnienia (…) Boję się tego niczym ślepiec ciemności.”

Gwiazd naszych wina
Źródło: rozdział 1

John Green Cytaty o historii

„Nie, nie historia choroby. T w o j a historia. Zainteresowania, kroniki, dziwne fetysze i tak dalej.”

Rozmowa Hezel i Augustusa.
Gwiazd naszych wina
Źródło: Rozdział 2

John Green cytaty

„Bo nie chcę cię zranić.”

Gwiazd naszych wina

„Nie szkodzi.”

Gwiazd naszych wina

„I wiem, że miłość to tylko krzyk w otchłani, a zapomnienie jest nieuniknione, ale ja naprawdę cię kocham.”

Rozmowa Hazel z Augustusem w eleganckiej, romantycznej restauracji w Amsterdamie.
Gwiazd naszych wina

„Nigdy nie idź na wojnę z rzeczownikiem. Zawsze przegrasz.”

źródło: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkXFb1sMa38&index=41&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s; odniesienie do "Wojny z biedą" i podobnych pomysłów.

„Zakochałem się w tobie Hazel Grace.”

Gwiazd naszych wina

„Pójdziesz do papierowych miast i nigdy już nie powrócisz.”

Postać: Margo Roth Spiegelman
Papierowe miasta
Źródło: s. 195

John Green: Cytaty po angielsku

“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 książka Gwiazd naszych wina

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.”

John Green książka Will Grayson, Will Grayson

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

“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 książka 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.”

John Green książka Looking for 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.”

John Green książka Gwiazd naszych wina

Źródło: The Fault in Our Stars

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

John Green książka Gwiazd naszych wina

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 książka Gwiazd naszych wina

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 książka Papierowe miasta

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

“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.”

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

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

John Green książka Papierowe miasta

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

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

John Green książka Looking for Alaska

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

“Love is the most common miracle”

John Green książka 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.”

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

“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.”

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?”

John Green książka Looking for Alaska

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