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“I’d never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, in the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them.”
― John Green, quote from Looking for Alaska / An Abundance of Katherines / Paper Towns / The Fault in Our Stars
“how do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world.”
― John Green, quote from Looking for Alaska / An Abundance of Katherines / Paper Towns / The Fault in Our Stars
“I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,” Whitman writes. And then for two pages, he’s just hearing: hearing a steam whistle, hearing people’s voices, hearing an opera. He sits on the grass and lets the sound pour through him. And this is what I was trying to do, too, I guess: to listen to all the little sounds of her, because before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.”
― John Green, quote from Looking for Alaska / An Abundance of Katherines / Paper Towns / The Fault in Our Stars
“I couldn’t help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching them—it was a kind of sad I didn’t mind, and so I just listened, letting all the happiness and the sadness of this ending swirl around in me, each sharpening the other. For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.”
― John Green, quote from Looking for Alaska / An Abundance of Katherines / Paper Towns / The Fault in Our Stars
“At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.”
― John Green, quote from Looking for Alaska / An Abundance of Katherines / Paper Towns / The Fault in Our Stars
“Like Emily Dickinson, I ain’t afraid of slant rhyme / And that’s the end of this verse; emcee’s out on a high.”
― John Green, quote from Looking for Alaska / An Abundance of Katherines / Paper Towns / The Fault in Our Stars
“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.’ That’s why I’m going. So I don’t have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”
― John Green, quote from Looking for Alaska / An Abundance of Katherines / Paper Towns / The Fault in Our Stars
“was early evening—the fields receding into a pink invisibility as they rose back into the horizon. Colin felt his heart slamming in his chest. He wondered if she even wanted to see him. He’d taken “sleeping over at Janet’s” as a hint, but maybe it wasn’t. Maybe she really was sleeping at Janet’s, whoever that was—which would mean a lot of hiking for naught. After five minutes of driving, he reached the fenced-in field that had once been home to Hobbit the horse. He climbed over the tri-logged fence and jogged across the field. Colin, of course, did not”
― John Green, quote from Looking for Alaska / An Abundance of Katherines / Paper Towns / The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
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“...и въпреки това и сега не вярвахме, че е истина, и не защото наистина не вярвахме, а защото не искахме да е истина, бяхме стигнали дотам, че вече не знаехме какво ще стане с нас без него, какво ще стане с нашия живот след него, не можех да си представя света без човека, който на дванайсет години беше ме направил толкова щастлива, както никой друг по-късно не можа да ме направи след онези отминали преди толкова време следобеди, когато излизахме от училище в пет, а той дебнеше от капандурите на обора момичетата в сини униформи с моряшка яка и коси, сплетени отзад само на една плитка, като си мислеше, майчице Бендисион Алварадо, колко били красиви жените на моята възраст, викаше ни, виждахме тръпнещите му очи, ръката в ръкавици със скъсани пръсти, която се мъчеше да ни изкуси с карамеленото звънче на посланика Форбес, всички се разбягаха изплашени, всички освен аз, аз останах сама на улицата пред училището и когато разбрах, че никой не ме гледа, опитах се да грабна бонбона и тогава той ме сграбчи за китките с нежните тигрови лапи и ме вдигна във въздуха, без да ми причинява болка, и ме прокара с такова внимание през капандурата, че не развали нито едно плисе на полата ми, и ме сложи да легна във вмирисаното на застояла урина сено, като се мъчеше да ми каже нещо, което не излизаше от сухата му уста, защото беше по-изплашен и от мен, трепереше, под куртката му се усещаха ударите на сърцето, беше блед, очите му бяха пълни със сълзи, както на никой мъж през целия ми изгнанически живот, пипаше ме мълчешката, дишаше бавно, опипваше ме с нежност, каквато никога вече не срещнах, зърната на гърдите ми наедряваха, не му бяха нужни повече карамелите на посланика Балдрих, за да се вмъквам през капандурите на обора, та да изживея щастливите часове на пубертета си с тоя мъж с чисто и тъжно сърце, който ме чакаше седнал в сеното,...”
― Gabriel García Márquez, quote from The Autumn of the Patriarch
“Sometimes Midas suspected that life was a film with subliminal messages. Things would move along with an acceptable degree of predictability, then be punctuated by some horrible childhood memory.”
― Ali Shaw, quote from The Girl With Glass Feet
“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?”
― Tamera Alexander, quote from Rekindled
“Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance.”
― Lama Surya Das, quote from Awakening the Buddha Within
“
الشباب هو كلّ ما يستحقّ أن نتمنّاه لأنفسنا في الحياة .”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Fantastic Tales
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