Looking For Alaska By John Green Quotes

#1. 'Looking For Alaska' by John Green is a very great book. I feel like every teenage girl says John Green's 'Fault In Our Stars,' but 'Looking For Alaska' is better.

Alessia Cara

#2. I learned that myth doesn't mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting.

John Green

#3. That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep.

John Green

#4. If people were rain i was drizzle and she was a hurrican.

John Green

#5. You didn't sleep?"

"No! The dreams are terrible. In my dreams, she doesn't even look like herself anymore. I don't even remember what she looked like.

John Green

#6. The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't.

John Green

#7. If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane.

John Green

#8. But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more time for reading when I'm old and boring.

John Green

#9. And I don't blame him. I don't even trust me.

John Green

#10. I didn't know what to say to her - I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

John Green

#11. Teenagers think they're invincible

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#12. That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

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#13. After all this time, it still seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out - but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it. Chip/Colonel

John Green

#14. I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.

John Green

#15. Yeah," I said. "What is that? A bird? "It's the swan," he said. "Wow. A school with a swan. Wow."
"That swan is the spawn of Satan. Never get closer to it than we are now.

John Green

#16. AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.
'So that's Sara,' I said.
'Yes.'
'She seems nice.

John Green

#17. Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.

John Green

#18. I finally found something that can stop the fox. The fox cannot summit Strawberry Hill. - Takumi

John Green

#19. How will we ever get out, straight and fast, of this labyrinth of suffering?

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#20. She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me.

John Green

#21. This one's for Alaska Young!

John Green

#22. In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla,

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#23. She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale.
"DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted.
Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts."
"That's not any better!

John Green

#24. This is so much fun, but I'm so sleepy. To be continued?

John Green

#25. Ya'll smoke to enjoy. I smoke to die.

John Green

#26. Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.

John Green

#27. The pigs can't stop the fox; I'm too quick,' Takumi said to himself. I can rhyme while I run; I'm that slick.

John Green

#28. ALSO BY JOHN GREEN Looking for Alaska ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... An Abundance of Katherines ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Paper Towns ... ... ... ... ... ... Will Grayson, Will Grayson WITH DAVID LEVITHAN

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#29. Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drunk and tired.

John Green

#30. Why do you smoke so damn fast?"
"Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

John Green

#31. And on that thin-mooned night, I could see little more than her silhoutte except for when she smoked, the burning cherry of the cigarette washing her face in pale red light.

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#32. 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.

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#33. I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.

John Green