More quotes by John Green, Looking for Alaska

"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."
"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."
"The Colonel led all the cheers.Cornbread!"he screamed.CHICKEN!"the crowd responded.Rice!"PEAS!"And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER SATs."Hip Hip Hip Hooray!"the Colonel cried.YOU'LL BE WORKIN' FOR US SOMEDAY!"
"People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to."
"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."