John Green, Looking for Alaska Quotes

"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."

"Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful."

"Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful."

"Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful."

"So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane."

"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."

"When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books."

"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 fox hat?"I asked."Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox."

"They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting."

"I may die young, but at least I'll die smart."

"I may die young, but at least I'll die smart."

"It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn't the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things."

"What you must understand about me is that I'm a deeply unhappy person."

"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't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps."

"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't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps."

"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'd just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. "I just did some calculations, and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit"

"At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved."

"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 going to read them all. I call it my Life's Library. Every summer since I was little, I've gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read."

"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."

"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."

"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 down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God."

"Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war"

"Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war"

"I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!"And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going."

"I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit."

"That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them."

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

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

"Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die."

"We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken."