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."
More quotes by 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."
"I may die young, but at least I'll die smart."
"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."
"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?"
"You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."