John Green citáty

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„Ako sa dostaneme z toho labyrintu utrpenia?“

„Ten úsmev mohol ukončiť vojny a vyliečiť rakovinu.“

„Poznám toľko posledných slov. Ale jej slová sa nedozviem nikdy.“

„Posledné slová sa vždy ťažšie pamätajú, keď neviete, že sa niekto chystá umrieť.“

„Každý z nás občas hľadí hore a uvedomuje si, že je stratený v bludisku.“

„Je labyrintom život alebo umieranie? Čomu sa snaží uniknúť - svetu alebo jeho koncu?“

„Posledné slová Thomasa Edisona boli: "Je to tam krásne." Neviem, kde tam je, ale viem, že niekde je, a dúfam, že je tam krásne.“

„Ja len chcem urobiť niečo, na čom záleží. Alebo byť niekým, na kom záleží. Chcem, aby ostatným na mne záležalo.“

„Umieranie nemôže byť horšie ako byť pozostalý.“

„Chcel som nájsť to veľké Azda“

„A potom tam ležal v horúčke ľútosti a opakoval si teraz zapamätanú poznámku v hlave a chcel plakať, ale namiesto toho cítil len tú bolesť za svojim solar plexom. Plač pridáva na niečom: plačom si ty, plus slzy. Ale ten pocit, ktorý Colin pociťoval, bol nejakým hrozným opakom plaču. Bol si to ty, mínus niečo.“

„Vennov diagram chalanov, ktorí nemajú radi inteligentné dievčatá a chalanov, s ktorými nechceš randiť, má tvar kruhu.“

“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'.”