Top Quotes from Looking for Alaska

We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

The Great Perhaps awaits. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

Going to fight to make yesterday tomorrow. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

The labyrinth wasn’t life or death, it was suffering and searching. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

We’re all going, and we’re here, and that’s all we have. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

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

I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

The only way out of this labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

You’re not going to erase hell; it’s already here. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

Somebody will notice you. Somebody will wake up. Someone cares about you. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

One day you will do things for me that you hate. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

You can’t just make yourself matter, you have to matter to someone. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

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. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

You can’t just make me different and then leave. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

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, Looking for Alaska

If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

When adults say, ‘Teenagers think they are invincible’ with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

But I’d like to think that dying is like going to sleep and waking up, and if you want, you can do it again and again. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth! – John Green, Looking for Alaska

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

But I guess that’s the beauty of living in the Great Perhaps, that in life, anything is possible. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

I’m going to tell you something important. Grooming is 98 percent of your job as a teacher. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer: let such a one be retained in command! – John Green, Looking for Alaska

The moral of the story is that I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

When people try to make the best of a situation, it’s really very amusing. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

We all want what we can’t have. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

When adults say, Teenagers think they are invincible with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

Life is a big what if. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

Some things don’t fade. Some things are just never over. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

The truth will come out eventually, and it never benefits you to hide it. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

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, Looking for Alaska

A lot of life is suffering, trying to find the best way through it. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

What’s the difference between a crush and a friend? Doesn’t a friend come to bail you out of jail? – John Green, Looking for Alaska

I was very confused for a long time. I’m probably still a little confused, but less confused now. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

Do you remember when you first got here, how I told you that you had to find your place? Well, you found it. It’s here. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

Let’s play a simple game called: ‘Guess How Many Words You Can Fit on a Page & Still Have Chunks of White Space Called Margins’. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world that thought and felt such strange and awful things. – John Green, Looking for Alaska

Because you solve a puzzle over and over until you get it right, it doesn’t mean you’ll ever figure out why the puzzle hates you – John Green, Looking for Alaska

You have to get out of bed each morning and put your feet on the ground, regardless of what took place the night before. – John Green, Looking for Alaska