John Green, Looking For Alaska

Quotes

• “You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let ...”
• “I must talk, and you must listen, for we are engaged here in the most important pursuit in history: the search for meani...”
• “I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for ...”
• “We were kissing.I thought: This is good.I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad at all.I thought: I am clearly ...”
• “Have you really read all those books in your room?”Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m ...”
• “People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the th...”
• “Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how ...”
• “It's not because I want to make out with her."Hold on."He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'...”
• “I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn...”
• “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, ...”
• “The Colonel led all the cheers.Cornbread!"he screamed.CHICKEN!"the crowd responded.Rice!"PEAS!"And then, all together: "...”
• “There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through t...”
• “What the hell is that?"I laughed."It's my fox hat.""Your fox hat?""Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat.""Why are you wearing your fo...”
• “Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isb...”
• “Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps."That's why I'm going. So I don'...”
• “What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an ...”
• “I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated peo...”
• “Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You n...”
• “Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewh...”
• “So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she w...”
• “It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and aw...”
• “I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to d...”
• “Principled hate is a hell of a lot stronger than "Boy, I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown me into the lake"hate.”
• “She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.”
• “Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.”
• “And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”
• “At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.”
• “It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.”
• “They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.”
• “I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit.”
• “I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..”
• “That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.”
• “It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes-Miles "Pudge”
• “We need never be without hope because we can never be irreparably broken.”
• “What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
• “We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.”
• “At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.”
• “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
• “Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war”
• “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive”
• “When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
• “I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.”
• “I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.”
• “You can't just make me different and then leave”
• “I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”
• “Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”