John Green, Looking for Alaska

"I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit."

"You can't just make me different and then leave"

"It's not because I want to make out with her."Hold on."He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'd just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. "I just did some calculations, and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit"

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

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

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

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

"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 since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read."

"She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!"And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going."

"I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to."

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

"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."

"There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going."

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

"I must talk, and you must listen, for we are engaged here in the most important pursuit in history: the search for meaning. What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person? How did we come to be, and what will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules of this game, and how might we best play it?"