Looking For Alaska Book Quotes

• Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Real, Believe

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

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• We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

  John Green

  Hope, Teenage, Alaska

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

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• There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

  John Green

  Knowing, Alaska, Done

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

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• Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

  John Green

  Hipster, Alaska, Imagining The Future

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.46, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant.

  John Green

  Hipster, Alaska, Hell

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.138, Penguin

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• 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

  Missing Someone, Nice, Stupid

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.56, 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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• I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.

  John Green

  Alaska, Alaska Young

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

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• You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.

  John Green

  Alaska, Different, Matter

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.128, Penguin

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• I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.

  John Green

  Girlfriend, Bad Boyfriend, Deserve

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.33, Penguin

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• The not knowing would not keep me from caring.

  John Green

  Hipster, Caring, Knowing

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.160, Penguin

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• Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.

  John Green

  Pudge, Foxes

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.86, Penguin

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• The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.

  John Green

  Hipster, Blow, Labyrinth

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.158, Penguin

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• Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it.

  John Green

  Jesus, Talking, People

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.58, Penguin

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• She left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.

  John Green

  Hipster, Enough, He Left Me

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, 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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• Everything that comes together falls apart.

  John Green

  Hipster, Fall, Together

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.181, Penguin

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• She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every endeavor.

  John Green

  Hipster, Eye, Kind

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.21, Penguin

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• That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it?

  John Green

  Labyrinth, Dying, Trying

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.21, 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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• In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla.

  John Green

  Sunshine, Dark, Sweat

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.23, Penguin

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