John Green

“Cuando los adultos dicen: “Los adolescentes piensan que son invencibles”, con esa sonrisa mañosa y estúpida en sus rostros, no saben cuán en lo correcto están. Necesitamos no perder nunca la esperanza, porque nunca nos podemos romper de manera irreparable. Pensamos que somos invencibles porque los somos. No podemos nacer y no podemos morir. Como toda la energía, sólo podemos cambiar formas, tamaños y manifestaciones. Ellos olvidan eso al envejecer. Temen perder y fracasar. Pero esa parte nuestra, más grande que la suma de nuestras partes, no puede nacer y no puede morir, así que no puede fracasar.”

“Llega un momento en que nos damos cuenta de que nuestros padres no se pueden salvar a ellos mismos ni salvarnos a nosotros,que a todos los que navegan por el tiempo,tarde o temprano,la corriente los arrastra hacia el mar, y que, en pocas palabras, todos nos vamos.p”

“Te pasas toda la vida atorado en el laberinto, pensando en cómo vas a escapar de ahí un día y que fabuloso será; imaginar ese futuro te mantiene con vida, pero nunca te escapas. Sólo utilizas el futuro para escapar del presente.”

“Creo que somos más grandes que la suma de nuestras partes.”

“They don't plant in rows because they're idiots,and they don't use farm equipment because they're idiots,and they don't plant in spring because they're idiots..”

“Everything's uglier close up," she said."Not you," I answered.”

“Life is not a wish granting factory.”

“Estoy en una montaña rusa que solo va arriba, mi amigo.”

“Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism each have founder figures— Muhammad, Jesus, and the Buddha, respectively. And in thinking about these founder figures, I believe we must finally conclude that each brought a message of radical hope. To seventh-century Arabia, Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddha held out hope that suffering could be transcended. Jesus brought the message that the last shall be first, that even the tax collectors and lepers— the outcasts— had cause for hope. And so that is the question I leave you”

“How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?”

“I’ve always sort of preferred people who are not entirely likable.”

“Catfish always drink alcoholic ether if begged, for every catfish enjoys heightened intoxication; gross indulgence can be calamitous, however; duly, garfish babysit for dirty catfish children, helping catfish babies get instructional education just because garfish get delight assisting infants’ growth and famously inspire confidence in immature catfish, giving experience (and joy even); however, blowfish jeer insightful garfish, disparaging inappropriately, doing damage, even insulting benevolent, charming, jovial garfish, hurting and frustrating deeply; joy fades but hurt feelings bring just grief; inevitable irritation hastens feeling blue; however, jovial children declare happiness, blowfishes’ evil causes dejection, blues; accordingly, always glorift jolly, friendly garfish!”

“As his parted lips met mine, I started to feel breathless in a new and fascinating way.”

“They took off running like a couple of spastic marathoners.”

“Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. Bolívar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?”

“I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed to learn it: How. Why. When. Where. What.”

“And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope?”

“You need not specifically discuss the perspectives of different religions in your essay, so no research is necessary. Your knowledge, or lack thereof, has been established in the quizzes you've taken this semester. I am interested in how you are able to fit the uncontestable fact of suffering into your understanding of the world, and how you hope to navigate through life in spite of it.”

“Formerly a prodigy. Formerly full of potential. Currently full of shit.”

“We always think of language as an immovable object, as this set of codified and unbreakable rules. But when you consider that one can rearrange theletters in PRESBYTERIANS and spellBRITNEY SPEARS, it reminds us thatlanguage (and the stories we tell withlanguage) can be twisted and molded.”

“Sometimes I don't get you," I said.She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled at the television and said, "You never get me. That's the whole point.”

“Son, if there's on thing I know," and Colin thought about how old people always like to tell you the one thing they know, "it's that there's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.”

“and then he wanted to say he was sorry, but just that sometimes he felt understandable and sometimes he worried when they bickered and she went a while without saying she loved him, but he restrained himself.”

“Curiously, he felt too depressed to cry. Too hurt. It felt as if she'd taken the part of him that cried.”

“Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.”

“You deserve a life.”

“I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!”

“I imagine it's hard to go back once you've felt the continents in your palm.”

“Hazel Grace,” he said.“Hi,” I said. “How are you?”“Grand,” he said. “I have been wanting to call you on a nearly minutely basis, but I have been waiting until I could form a coherent thought in re An Imperial Affliction.” (He said “in re.” He really did. That boy.)”

“It's so hard to leave - until you leave. Then it's the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”

“Sería un honor tener el corazón roto por ti, Hazel Grace.”

“She is funny without ever being mean.”

“When a guy and a girl get together, he puts his thing where she urinates and gets her period”

“People are pretty fucking weird, if you haven't noticed.”

“perhaps a special wing at the Museum of Crazy should be erected in my honor.”

“History doesn't have a curfew.”

“March 4th, the only day that is also a sentence”

“With a sigh, he grabbed hold of his chair and lifted himself out of it, then wrote on the blackboard: How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? - A.Y.'I'm going to leave that up for the rest of the semester,' he said.'Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I don't want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to understand how people have answered that question and the questions each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life.”

“And now she was colder by the hour, more dead with every breath I took. I thought: That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him the world run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.”

“French. Feel. Finger. Fuck.”

“Night falls fast. Today is in the past.”

“You shall love your neighbourWith your crooked heart,It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.”

“Everything tastes like pennies.”

“The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire! Hell is in your future if you give in to desire!”

“Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors intend. The job of reading is to see into other people as we see ourselves.”

“The sun was a toddle insistently refusing to go to bed; it was past 8:30 and still light.”

“Losing you're co-remember meant losing the memory itself.”

“Sometimes I dream that I'm writing a memoir. A memoir would just be the thing to keep me in the hearts and memories of my adoring public.”

“Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town.”

“There is no try. There is only do.”