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Quotes from Looking for Alaska — John Green

born 1977 United States

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"Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape—the world or the end of it?"

Looking for Alaska (2005)

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

Looking for Alaska (2005)

You can say a lot of things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are unduly afraid of deep fryers.

Looking for Alaska (2005)

"God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will."

Looking for Alaska (2005)

At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.

Looking for Alaska (2005)

"I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them."

Looking for Alaska (2005)

"How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?"

Looking for Alaska (2005)

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

Looking for Alaska (2005)

I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.

Looking for Alaska (2005)

"Prick us, we bleed. Prick him, he pops."

Looking for Alaska (2005)

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

Looking for Alaska (2005)

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

Looking for Alaska (2005)

"'I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.'"

Looking for Alaska (2005)

[We] had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth.

Looking for Alaska (2005)

The Colonel ran ahead of me, gleeful at his ejection, and I jogged after him, trailing in his wake. I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

Looking for Alaska (2005)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Green (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.