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“A woman so strong she burns heaven and drenches hell.” (Looking for Alaska Quotes)
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I’ve been smart longer.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.”
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
“Because memories fall apart, too. And you’re left with nothing.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can’t due to deadness.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn’t hate people who watched or played them.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“I just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. 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 hurricane.” (Looking for Alaska Quotes)
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“I’d rather wonder than get the answers I couldn’t live with.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“I’m really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“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.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“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.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone’s about to die.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“Scared isn’t a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“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.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.” (Looking for Alaska Quotes)
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“Things never happened like I imagined them.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“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.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“We are greater than the sum of our parts.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“We didn’t talk much. But we didn’t need to.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“When you stop wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you stop suffering when they do.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“You never get me. That’s the whole point.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape 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.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
“You’re awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted.”
John Green
Looking for Alaska
