Looking for Alaska

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining th...”

“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”

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

“Have you really read all those books in your room?” Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer sin...”

“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”

“They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.”

“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”

“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war”

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sens...”

“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...”

“At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.”

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

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

“We need never be without hope because we can never be irreparably broken.”

“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”

“He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were...”

“You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck i...”

“I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them.”

“I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.”

“You know what's lame, Pudge? I really care about her. I mean, we were hopeless. Badly matched. But still. I mean, I said I loved her... I mean, it's stupid to miss someone you didn't even ge...”

“Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”

“You can't just make me different and then leave”