Labyrinth Looking For Alaska Quotes - Page 2

• When adults say, "Teenagers think 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 only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.

  John Green

  Teenage, Stupid, Real

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

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• But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail

  John Green

  Teenage, Alaska, Teens

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

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• We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.

  John Green

  Teenage, Alaska, Energy

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

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• And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

  John Green

  Alaska, Imagining The Future, Labyrinth

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.46, Penguin

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• 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

  Real, Believe, Alaska

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

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• We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions

  Barack Obama

  Ambition, Alaska, Individual

  Second Presidential Election Victory Speech, delivered 7 November 2012, McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois

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• And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.

  John Green

  Fingers, Screwed Up, Colonels

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

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• She did not need to fold into herself and self-destruct. Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. When adults say, "Teenagers think the hate 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.

  John Green

  Hate, Teenager, Stupid

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• ...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

  Christian, Buddhist, Lying

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.67, Penguin

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