It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only... - John Green, Looking for Alaska
"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."
"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."
"I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved."