I leave you the best quotes of Looking for Alaska, A youth-style book written by John Green, published in 2005 and very well received by readers. An 8-chapter miniseries based on this book is expected to be released soon..
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-The only thing worse than throwing a party that no one goes to is throwing a party attended by two vastly and deeply uninteresting people. -Miles Halter.
-Why don't we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that is not an easy thing to do. I am a bad boyfriend. She is a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other. -Chip Martin.
-But many times people die because of how they live. And consequently, his last words tell me a lot about who these people were and why they became the type of person about whom biographies are written. -Miles Halter.
-I'll die young, but at least I'll die smart. -Alaska Young.
-We cannot love our neighbors until we know how twisted their hearts are. -Alaska Young.
-What the hell is an instant? Nothing is an instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding one hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous. -Miles Halter.
-It always shocked me to realize that I was not the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and horrible things. -Miles Halter.
-You're not watching, Pudge. When I enter your room I see two boys who like to play video games. When I see my room I see a girl who loves books. -Alaska Young.
-I felt how unfair that was, the indisputable injustice of loving someone who could have loved you back, but cannot because he is now dead. -Miles Halter.
-This labyrinth is not life or death. It is suffering. Doing wrong and the wrong things happen to you. Bolívar was talking about pain, not about living or dying. How does one get out of the labyrinth of suffering? -Alaska Young.
-We are even more than the sum of our parts. -Miles Halter.
-If only we could see the wave of endless consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we cannot know what is better until knowledge becomes useless. -Miles Halter.
-There are always the answers. We just have to be smart enough. -Chip Martin.
-You can't make yourself care and then die, Alaska, because now I'm hopelessly different. -Miles Halter.
-And in my classes I will speak most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer. -Dr. Hyde.
-What you must understand about me is that I am a deeply unhappy person. -Alaska Young.
-Being afraid is not a good excuse. Being afraid is the excuse that everyone has used. -Alaska Young.
-I will never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last few minutes, I will never know if she left us on purpose. But not knowing will not make me stop caring and I will always love her. -Miles Halter.
-Entropy increases, things fall apart. -Dr. Hyde.
-When adults say "teenagers are invincible," with the silly, stupid smile, they have no idea how true they are. (…) We think we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born or die. Like all energy, we only change in shape, size, and manifestations. They forget that when they grow up and everything scares them. -Miles Halter.
-Thomas Edison's last words were: "It's beautiful there." I don't know where that is, but I think it's somewhere and I hope it's beautiful. -Miles Halter.
-So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I would be a drizzle and she would be a hurricane. -Miles Halter.
-Do you know who you love, Pudge? You love the girl who makes you laugh, shows you porn, and drinks wine with you. You don't love the crazy taciturn bitch. -Alaska Young.
-She's cute, I thought, but you don't need a girl who treats you like you're ten. I already had a mom. -Alaska Young.
-When you stop wishing that things didn't collapse, you stop suffering when they did. -Miles Halter.
-I am sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to. -Takumi Hikohito.
-At one point we all look and realize that we are lost in a maze. -Dr. Hyde.
-We can survive those terrible things because we are as indestructible as we want to be. -Miles Halter.
-They love their hair because they are not smart enough to love something more interesting. -Alaska Young.
-Because memories also fall apart. And you are left with nothing, without even a ghost, but with its shadow. -Miles Halter.
-I'm really not in the mood to answer questions that start with how, when, where, why, or what. -Alaska Young.
-True love will triumph in the end, which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it is the most beautiful lie we have. -Storyteller.
-That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them. -Miles Halter.
-We didn't talk much. But we didn't need it. -Miles Halter.
-I just did some calculations and was able to determine that you are a charlatan. -Chip Martin.
-The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. -Alaska Young.
-After all this time it seemed to me that the most direct and fastest way was the only way out, but I chose the maze. The maze sucks, but I choose it. -Chip Martin.
-I know many last words. But I'll never know hers. -Miles Halter.
-You spend your whole life trapped in a maze, thinking how one day you will escape and how impressive it will be, and imagining that future you keep moving, but never do. You simply use the future to escape the present. -Alaska Young.
-The last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that that person is about to die. -Miles Halter.
-At a certain point, you just pull on the band-aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you feel the relief. -Miles Halter.
-You are terribly philosophical for a girl who just got arrested. -Miles Halter.
-I'd rather be left in doubt than get answers I couldn't live with. -Miles Halter.
-You can't just make me different and then leave. Because it was fine before. -Miles Halter.
-A principled hatred is much stronger than a “boy I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown in the lake” hatred. -Miles Halter.
-In the dark next to me, she smelled like sweat, sunlight, and vanilla. -Alaska Young.
-Sometimes battles are lost. But malice always wins wars. -Alaska Young.
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