Looking For Alaska Quotes
"The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people."
"At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved."
"You're given a large measure of freedom here. If you abuse it, you'll regret it."
"If there's one thing I know, it's when I've just stepped in another man's piss."
"Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape—the world or the end of it?"
"So yeah, let's just say that it was the bugs."
"The nature of the labyrinth, I scribbled into my spiral notebook, and the way out of it."
"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. You just use the future to escape the present."
"Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war."
"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia."
"I may die young," she said. "But at least I'll die smart."
"It's all good," the Colonel told me. "Just don't say anything."
"Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer."
"We're so bad," the Colonel said, "we don't even have a mascot. I call us the Culver Creek Nothings."
"I didn’t know what was going on. But I knew my job: sit tight and shut up."
"All I have to do now is convince you to like her and convince her to like you."
"The sound is an integral part of the artistic experience of this video game."
"I’ve never seen him down that way, but who knows what she told him."
"Don’t worry about the Eagle tonight. He’s probably masturbating for the first time in a month."
"You shall love your crooked neighbour / With your crooked heart."
"If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane."
"I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase."
"People were like rain; I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane."
"We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken."
"We think that we are invincible because we are."
"When adults say, 'Teenagers think they are invincible' with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are."
"When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books."
"You think I’m pretty?" Lara said, and laughed, bashful.
"We are all going. Find your way out of that maze."
"Pudge, what you must understand about me is that I am a deeply unhappy person."
"It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without."
"It didn’t matter. As she slept, I whispered, 'I love you, Alaska Young.'"
"Born in a hotel room, and—God damn it—died in a hotel room."
"Better now. Warmer," he said. A small, ghost white hand appeared from beneath the comforter. "Hold my hand, will ya?"
"All right, but that’s it. No kissing." The quilt shook with his laughter.
"Forty-two there. Forty-two back. Eighty-two miles. No. Eighty-four. Yes. Eighty-four miles in forty-five hours."
"Not much. I just walked till I got too cold, and then I turned around."
"No! The dreams are terrible. In my dreams, she doesn’t even look like herself anymore."
"Yeah. I was so tired of her getting upset for no reason."
"The way she would get sulky and make references to the freaking oppressive weight of tragedy or whatever but then never said what was wrong."
"My girlfriend dumped me, so I’m sad. I got caught smoking, so I’m pissed off. My head hurts, so I’m cranky."
"Twenty-four million seven hundred fifty-five thousand five hundred and nineteen."
"Can't wear it to the opera," said the Colonel, almost smiling. "Can't wear it to a funeral. Can't use it to hang myself."
"I am not a coward, but I am so strong. So hard to die."
"How will I ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?—A. Y."
"You can’t just make me different and then leave," I said out loud to her. "Because I was fine before, Alaska."
"You can’t just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different."
"Maybe she was going to return them to Jake," I said.
"Yeah, you’re probably right," the Colonel said. He dropped the book, sat down on the bed next to me, and put his forehead in his hands.
"I’m tired of all this secret shit. She was my friend, too."
"He’ll hate us more if we keep pretending he doesn’t exist."
"She wanted to do something, and she did it. I was probably just the guy who happened to be there."
"When you stopped wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you’d stop suffering when they did."
"Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, or that I did."
"Funny thing, talking to ghosts. You can’t tell if you’re making up their answers or if they are really talking to you."
"I still believe in the Great Perhaps, and I can believe in it in spite of having lost her."
"If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions."
"Energy is never created and never destroyed."
"I believe there is hope for us all, even amid the suffering—and maybe even inside the suffering."