Alaska Young Quotes

• What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

  John Green

  Hipster, Sadness, Alaska

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• Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

  John Green

  Hipster, War, Winning

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.61, Penguin

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• 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

  Pain, Talking, Alaska

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• I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

  John Green

  Heart, Alaska, Neighbor

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

  John Green

  Wise, Real, Alaska

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.40, Penguin

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• This is so much fun, but I’m so sleepy. To be continued?

  John Green

  Fun, Sleepy

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• Let's make a deal: You figure out what the labyrinth is and how to get out of it, and i'll get you laid. -Alaska Young

  John Green

  Alaska, Labyrinth, Figures

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• Wait, wait. I don't get it.' 'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells.

  John Green

  Eight, Cells, Waiting

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• Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

  Simon Bolivar

  Alaska, Labyrinth, Bedtime

  Simon Bolivar's statement made in the last months of his life, occasionally said to be his last words; quoted in Gabriel Garcia Marquez "The General in His Labyrinth" (p. 267), 1990.

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• They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.

  John Green

  Funny, Hipster, Smart

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• It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

  John Green

  Alaska, Suffering, Labyrinth

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.68, Penguin

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• I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.

  John Green

  Alaska, Looking For Alaska Book

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.57, Penguin

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• Night falls fast. Today is the past.

  John Green

  Fall, Past, Night

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.74, Penguin

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• Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

  John Green

  Christian, Buddhist, Alaska

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.68, Penguin

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• How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Halloween, Alaska, Labyrinth

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “The General in His Labyrinth”, p.195, Penguin UK

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• She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.

  John Green

  Alaska, Knowing, Pranks

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.106, Penguin

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• Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it, the nervous warmth of touching – a pale reflection of the fireworks of one mouth on another, but a reflection nonetheless. And in the almostness of the moment, I cared at least enough. I wasn’t sure whether I liked her, and doubted whether I could trust her, but I cared at least enough to try to find out. Her on my bed, wide green eyes staring down at me. The enduring mystery of her sly, almost smirking, smile. Five layers between us.

  John Green

  Sex, Eye, Reflection

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.63, Penguin

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• This one's for Alaska Young!

  John Green

  Alaska, Young

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.192, Penguin

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