Quotes

So this is the last essay and maybe one of my favorites, because I will talk about a little bit about what inspired and what John Green wants to share with us with his famous quotes.

Now you know a little bit about him because of my last essays, for examples he supports “nerds”, he called himself a nerd. He really is trying to change the point of view that young people have now (he writes for adolescents because he doesn´t think adults are very interesting) about what we like, the way we don’t care about learning new things, how society has changed our point of view.  Like this quote is so perfect to me, I mean this quote should be read by everyone:

“That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.”

— John Green, Paper Town

He have different types of books but in almost all of them he tries to encourage ourselves to never give up and not because sometimes we had a problem, it means that we can’t get over it.

I recommend Paper Towns, I think everyone should read that book! He began writing it thinking about whether there was meaning to suffering, and how one can reconcile one’s self to a world where suffering is so unjustly distributed. And let’s be honest, we (teenagers) are in the phase when we believe everyone is against us, life is not fair, no one understand blah blah …

I can keep talking about him all day but the point is, the cool thing is that writers are free to express themselves, so they can go wild and write about anything they want. It can be about their new book, series, their life, imagination, etc.

I’ll put some of my favorite quotes from him, and I can’t imagine someone not loving this man, I mean just read the quotes.

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”

― John Green

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”

― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“I’m starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.” 
— John Green,Paper Towns

 “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.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”

― John Green

“Those awful things are survivable because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.”

— John Green,Looking for Alaska

“At some point, you just pull off the band-aid, and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.”

— John Green, Looking for Alaska

“That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.”

— John Green, Paper Town