LOOKING FOR ALASKA QUOTES

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” – John Green

“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.” – John Green

“I’m not going to have a better answer until I have a better life.” – John Green

“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.” – John Green

“In the grand scheme of things, a true understanding of reality is the beginning of social change.” – John Green

“I wanted so badly to be authentic and fully compassionate, but I felt like my true self was lost in this chaotic world.” – John Green

“I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets god-awful cold in the winter but there’s a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.” – John Green

“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.” – John Green

“The snow drove against the library windows in the afternoon and the fire was warm and pleasant.” – John Green

“I spent the whole night feeling like I was on drugs.” – John Green

“He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless. And as I walked back to give Takumi’s note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.” – John Green

“How can you say it was a low point? I mean, I was smoking, drinking, and listening to angry music. I’d have to say that the only way it could’ve been worse would be if I was bleeding.” – John Green

“The Colonel led the revolución de los gatos, and he was sharply aware at that moment of their lack armed forces with which to carry out his coup, aware of his diminutive command as the Colonel, Iggy, and myself tried to level the O.O.P.S. occupation of computers for the betterment of the world at large but for the education of students in particular.” – John Green

“You’ve got to get out of here. You’re small-time.” – John Green

“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.” – John Green QUOTES ABOUT MENDING RELATIONSHIPS

“In the end, we all become stories.” – John Green

“It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?” – John Green

“Stories are like people. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You just try to cherish them, overlook their flaws.” – John Green

“Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart—I’m even falling apart. I’m half gone. And so are you.” – John Green

“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.” – John Green

“You’re not committed to something through thick and thin unless trust is involved.” – John Green

“You’re like a millennial F. Scott Fitzgerald, right?” – John Green

“That’s the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.” – John Green

“Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.” – John Green

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.” – John Green

“What bothers me most about school is that who we are in school seems to be forever fixed.” – John Green

“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.” – John Green

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” – John Green