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Looking for Alaska by John Green
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"The but way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."
― John Dark-green, Looking for Alaska

"Thomas Edison's last words were "It'south very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, only I believe it'south somewhere, and I hope it'southward cute."
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

"When adults say, "Teenagers call up they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can merely alter shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They go scared of losing and failing. But that part of usa greater than the sum of our parts cannot brainstorm and cannot end, and and then it cannot neglect."
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

"Then I walked dorsum to my room and collapsed on the lesser bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane."
― John Greenish, Looking for Alaska

"Imagining the hereafter is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape information technology ane twenty-four hours, and how crawly it will exist, and imagining that future keeps yous going, only you never do it. You simply use the hereafter to escape the present."
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

"I wanted so badly to prevarication down next to her on the burrow, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Non fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the about 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."
― John Greenish, Looking for Alaska

"What the hell is that?" I laughed.
"It's my play tricks hat."
"Your play a joke on hat?"
"Yes, Pudge. My fox hat."
"Why are you lot wearing your fox lid?" I asked.
"Because no one tin can catch the motherfucking flim-flam."
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

"They dear their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting."
― John Greenish, Looking for Alaska

"What is an "instant" expiry anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one 2d? 10? The pain of those seconds must have been atrocious as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding hurting feels particularly instantaneous."
― 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 atrocious things."
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

"What you must sympathize well-nigh me is that I'thou a deeply unhappy person."
― John Light-green, Looking for Alaska

"Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his concluding words were "I become to seek a Bully Possibly." That's why I'm going. So I don't take to wait until I dice to start seeking a Corking Perchance."
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

"It's non because I desire to brand out with her."
Agree on." He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'd just made a mathematical quantum and and so looked dorsum up at me. "I just did some calculations, and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit"
― John Greenish, Looking for Alaska

"At some bespeak, you just pull off the Rough-and-tumble, and it hurts, simply and then it's over and y'all're relieved."
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

"Accept you lot actually read all those books in your room?"

Alaska laughing- "Oh God no. I've possibly read a third of 'em. But I'm going to read them all. I call it my Life'due south Library. Every summertime since I was little, I've gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. And then I always have something to read."
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

"He was gone, and I did non have fourth dimension to tell him what I had only now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things washed and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time considering we could not see the future. If only nosotros could run across the countless string of consequences that result from our smallest deportment. But nosotros tin't know better until knowing amend is useless. And as I walked back to give Takumi'south note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left u.s. on purpose. Merely the not-knowing would non keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Immature, my crooked neighbour, with all my crooked heart."
― John Dark-green, Looking for Alaska

"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."
― John Dark-green, Looking for Alaska

"Sometimes y'all lose a battle. Just mischief always wins the war"
― John Greenish, Looking for Alaska

"I am going to accept this saucepan of water and cascade it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to apply this torch to burn down the gates of paradise and then that people will non dear God for want of heaven or fearfulness of hell, merely because He is God."
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

"I simply did some calculations and I've been able to make up one's mind that you're full of shit."
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

"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 married woman started crying and screaming, "I want to go also! I want to go besides!" And with his last measure of force, McKinley turned to her and spoke his concluding words: "We are all going."
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

"That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened the fashion I imagined them."
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

"Sometimes I don't get you,' I said.
She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the goggle box and said, 'Y'all never get me. That's the whole signal."
― John Dark-green, Looking for Alaska

"We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nix can last, non even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was acquired by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of want meant the abeyance of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you lot'd stop suffering when they did."
― John Light-green, Looking for Alaska

"We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken."
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

"It'southward non life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing incorrect and having wrong things happen to you. That's the trouble. Bolivar was talking about the pain, non almost the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?"
― John Dark-green, Looking for Alaska

"I wanted to exist one of those people who accept streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. Only for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails."
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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