John Green, Looking for Alaska
"People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the though of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believe in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to."
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"People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the though of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believe in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to."
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 Ihated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"We got off at the next exit, quietly, and, switching drivers, we walked in front of the car. We met and I held him, my hands balled into tight fists around his shoulders, and he wrapped his short arms around me and squeezed tight, so that I felt the heaves of his chest as we realized over and over again that we were still alive. I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, 'God we must look so lame,' but it doesn't matter when you have just now realized, all the time later, that you are still alive."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"I am concussed,' I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.''You're fine,' Takumi said as he jogged back towards me. ''Let's get out of here before we're killed.''''I'm sorry,' I said. ''But I can't get up. I have suffered a mild concussion.''Lara ran out and sat down next to me.''Are you OK''''I am concussed,'' I said. Takumi sat down with me and looked me in the eye. ''Do you know what happened to you''''The beast got me.''''Do you know where you are''''I'm on a triple-and-a-half date.''''You're fine,'' Takumi said. ''Let's go.''And then I leaned forward and threw up on Lara's pants."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about"
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"... But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"I thought: This is not good. I though: I am not bad at kissing. Not at bad at all. I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"We left. We did not say: Don't drive, You're drunk. We did not say: We aren't letting you in that car when you are upset. We did not say: We insist on going with you. We did not say: This can wait until tomorrow. Anything-everything-can wait."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"I thought: That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"I thought: We are not close enough. I though: He will not hear it. I thought: He will hear it and be out so fast that we will have no chance. I thought: Twenty seconds. I was breathing hard and fast."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"I thought: We are not close enough. I thought: He will not hear it. I thought: He will hear it and be out so fast that we will have no chance. I thought: Twenty seconds. I was breathing hard ans fast."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
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