I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of lov... - John Green, Looking for Alaska

"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."

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

"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 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?"

"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."