I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends an... - John Green, Looking for Alaska
"I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.."
"I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.."
"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"
"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."
"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive"
"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 in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can't remember, because I never knew."
"I may die young, but at least I'll die smart."