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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.

  John Green

  Real, Labyrinth Looking For Alaska, Live By

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

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• 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

  Relationship, Easy, Break

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.36, Penguin

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• Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

  John Green

  Hipster, Fall, Increase

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, Penguin

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• After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.

  John Green

  Blow, Labyrinth, Way

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

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• 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

  Running, Fear, Glasses

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.109, 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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• And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.

  John Green

  Wise, Hipster, Fall

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.145, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

  John Green

  Girl, Book, Fall

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, 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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