She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who... - 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."
"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 the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous."
"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."
"I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to."
"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."
"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."