Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the wa... - John Green, Looking for Alaska

"When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books."

"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it 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."

"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."

"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."

"I may die young, but at least I'll die smart."