John Green, Looking for Alaska
"The prank is entitled "Subverting the Patriarchal Paradigm"."
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"The prank is entitled "Subverting the Patriarchal Paradigm"."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing. I flipped to the back and found the highlighted quote ("NEVER USE A HIGHLIGHTER IN MY BOOKS,"
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
"..if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was ahurricane."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"Could the two people who are making out please be quiet" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drunk and tired."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"You shall love your neighbour With your crooked heart,It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked.“Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"Mission accomplished' I said. Pudge my friend we are indefuckingstructable."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"Oh shit did you just dis the feminine gender I'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blender You think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhyme But I got flow like Ghostbusters got slime Objectify women and it's fuckin' on You'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon."
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
"Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not f*ck, 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 a hurricane."
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
"That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"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 and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"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."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"This one's for Alaska Young!"
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.'So that's Sara,' I said.'Yes.''She seems nice."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"The pigs can't stop the fox; I'm too quick,' Takumi said to himself. "I can rhyme while I run; I'm that slick."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"There are times when it is appropriate, even preferable, to get an erection when someone's face is in close proximity to your penis. This was not one of those times."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
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