John Green, Looking for Alaska

John Green, Looking for Alaska

"They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting."
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"They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"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"
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"We were kissing. I thought: This is good. I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad at all. I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe. Suddenly she laughed and pulled away from me. She wiggled a hand out of her sleeping bag and wiped her face. "You slobbered on my nose," she said, and laughed"
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"
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"I wouldn't have cared if my girlfriend was a Jaguar-driving Cyclops with a beard - I'd have been grateful just to have someone to make out with."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"You know what's lame, Pudge? I really care about her. I mean, we were hopeless. Badly matched. But still. I mean, I said I loved her... I mean, it's stupid to miss someone you didn't even get along with. but I don't know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive"
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you," and the Colonel whispered, "I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did," and I said, "No. Not past tense." She wasn't even a person anymore, just flesh rotting, but I loved her present tense."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die"
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
"You can't just make me different and then leave"
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take Alaska's genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. There is something else entirely. There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed"
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."
John Green, Looking for Alaska
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