More quotes by John Green, Looking for Alaska

"That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them."
"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."
"Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die."
"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."
"Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful."