John Green cytaty strona 3

„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

“It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.”

Gwiazd naszych wina

John Green: Cytaty po angielsku

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

John Green książka Papierowe miasta

Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 304
Paper Towns (2008)

“[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.”

John Green książka An Abundance of Katherines

Colin Singleton, p. 62
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

“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.”

John Green książka Papierowe miasta

Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 301
Paper Towns (2008)

“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.”

John Green książka Papierowe miasta

Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 216
Paper Towns (2008)

“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.”

Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself. John Green asks himself "Why is being a nerd bad?" in July 27: How Nerdfighters Drop Insults http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy1M5VHF3no YouTube

“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.”

Hey, some people on tumblr are wondering if writers feel upset or get a thrill when they kill their characters. Care to enlighten us?, John Green's tumblr, Tumblr, January 1, 2013, July 15, 2014 http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com/post/39363824562/hey-some-people-on-tumblr-are-wondering-if-writers,

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

John Green książka An Abundance of Katherines

Colin Singleton, pp. 15-16
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

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

John Green książka Looking for Alaska

Alaska Young, p. 52
Looking for Alaska (2005)

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

John Green książka Looking for Alaska

Alaska Young, p. 80
Looking for Alaska (2005)

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

John Green książka Looking for Alaska

Chip "the Colonel" Martin, p. 71
Looking for Alaska (2005)

“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.”

John Green książka An Abundance of Katherines

Colin Singleton, p. 15
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

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

John Green książka Papierowe miasta

Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, p. 304
Paper Towns (2008)

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

John Green książka An Abundance of Katherines

Colin Singleton, p. 4
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

“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.”

Nerdfighting in Bangladesh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEtIR0xHDfk YouTube

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

Poopy Nintendo Mystery Solved With Science http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyXVTLoR1lI YouTube

“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.”

References

“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!”

John Green książka Looking for Alaska

Miles "Pudge" Halter, p. 49
Looking for Alaska (2005)

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

The Puff Pwns Gravity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY4LZRBHtvc YouTube

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

John Green książka Looking for Alaska

Alaska Young, p. 110
Looking for Alaska (2005)

“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.”

Incorrectly attributed to John Green on various quotation sites and on social media.
Disputed

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

John Green książka Looking for Alaska

Miles "Pudge" Halter, pp. 220-221
Looking for Alaska (2005)

“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.”

John Green książka An Abundance of Katherines

Colin Singleton, p. 60
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

“"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."”

The Greek Debt Crisis Explained in Four Minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEVqeaFHsHE YouTube

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

John Green książka Looking for Alaska

Chip "the Colonel" Martin and Miles "Pudge" Halter, p. 14
Looking for Alaska (2005)

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

"CC US History: The 1960 in America", referring to "War on Poverty", but also several later concepts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkXFb1sMa38&index=41&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s YouTube

“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.”

: The Fall of The Roman Empire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PszVWZNWVA YouTube

“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.”

John Green książka Papierowe miasta

Quentin "Q" Jacobsen, pp. 140-141
Paper Towns (2008)