John Green, Looking for Alaska

"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."

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

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

"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive"

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

"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."

"What the hell is that?"I laughed."It's my fox hat.""Your fox hat?""Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat.""Why are you wearing your fox hat?"I asked."Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox."

"Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point."

"That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them."

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

"Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died."

"Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps."That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes-Miles "Pudge"

"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."

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