John Green cytaty

„Nie pozostanie nikt, kto by pamiętał Arystotelesa lub Kleopatrę, a co dopiero ciebie. Wszystko, co zrobiliśmy, zbudowaliśmy, napisaliśmy, wymyśliliśmy albo odkryliśmy, pójdzie w zapomnienie, a to (…) zupełnie straci sens. Może ta chwila nadejdzie szybko, a może jest odległa o miliony lat, ale nawet jeśli przetrwamy śmierć naszego słońca, nie będziemy istnieć wiecznie. Był czas, gdy organizmy nie miały świadomości, i nadejdzie czas, gdy znów będą jej pozbawione. Nie myśl o tym, że zapomnienie jest nieuniknione. Wierz mi, że wszyscy tak robią.”

Gwiazd naszych wina

„W miarę jak czytał, zakochiwałam się w nim tak, jakbym zapadała w sen: najpierw powoli, a potem nagle i całkowicie.”

Gwiazd naszych wina
Źródło: rozdział 1

„Nie zabiją cię, jeśli ich nie palisz. Nigdy nie paliłem. To metafora. Bierzesz w zęby coś, co cię może zabić, ale nie dajesz mu na to szansy. Metafora.”

Wyznanie Hazel Grace.
Gwiazd naszych wina

„Moje idee to gwiazdy, których nie potrafię ułożyć w konstelacje”

Metafora Augustusa
Gwiazd naszych wina

„Czujesz się lepiej?
– Nie – wymamrotał Isaac, ciężko dysząc.
– Tak to jest z bólem – odpowiedział Augustus, a potem spojrzał na mnie. – Domaga się, byśmy go odczuwali.”

Gwiazd naszych wina

„Zakochałem się w tobie Hazel Grace.”

rozmowa Augustusa Watersa i Isaaka.
Gwiazd naszych wina

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

Gwiazd naszych wina

John Green książka Papierowe miasta

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

„Jest tak wielu ludzi. Łatwo zapomnieć, jak przepełniony ludźmi jest świat – świat pęka w szwach od ludzi, a każdego z nich możemy sobie wyobrazić, tylko że nieodmiennie tworzymy sobie o nich niewłaściwe wyobrażenia.”

John Green książka Papierowe miasta

Postać: Quentin Jacobsen
Papierowe miasta
Źródło: s. 332

„Pocałunek Hezel i Gusa w Domu Anny Frank.”

„Fragment listu do Van Houtena, który napisał tuż przed swoją śmiercią.”

Gwiazd naszych wina
Źródło: Rozdział 12

“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.””

Gwiazd naszych wina

John Green: Cytaty po angielsku

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

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)

“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.”

John Green książka Will Grayson, Will Grayson

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

“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 książka Looking for Alaska

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

“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 An Abundance of Katherines

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

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

John Green książka Will Grayson, Will Grayson

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

“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 Looking for Alaska

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

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

John Green książka Gwiazd naszych wina

Źródło: The Fault in Our Stars

“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

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)

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

John Green książka Gwiazd naszych wina

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

“[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 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.”

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

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

“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 książka Papierowe miasta

Lacey Pemberton, pp. 255-256
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 książka Papierowe miasta

Marcus "Radar" Lincoln, p. 258
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 książka Papierowe miasta

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

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

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

“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.”

John Green książka Papierowe miasta

Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 257
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.”

John Green książka Papierowe miasta

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

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

John Green książka Looking for Alaska

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

“Love is the most common miracle”

John Green książka Looking for Alaska

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

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

John Green książka Will Grayson, Will Grayson

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

“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.”

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

“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."”

John Green książka Papierowe miasta

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

“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.”

John Green książka An Abundance of Katherines

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

“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 Green książka Gwiazd naszych wina

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

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

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

“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.”

John Green książka Looking for Alaska

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

“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?”

John Green książka Gwiazd naszych wina

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