If you’ve never heard of the young adult author John Green, I would suggest making your way to the local library and checking out his work. Whether or not you’re an avid reader, Green has a way of writing that will make you view literature in a whole new light. His words have a way of sticking in your brain long after you put down the novel. Here’s 12 quotes from John Green's "Looking for Alaska" to either remind you of his brilliance, or provoke you to begin reading.
1. 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.
--Miles Halter
2. "Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're gonna do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is kind of nostalgia."
--Alaska Young
3. 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.
--Miles Halter
4. "You never get me. That's the whole point."
--Alaska Young
5. If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.
--Miles Halter
6. "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 (The Colonel)
7. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.
--Miles Halter
8. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.
--Miles Halter
9. It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn't the only person in the world who though and felt such strange and awful things.
--Miles Halter
10. "Luck is for suckers."
--Alaska Young
11. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.
--Miles Halter
12. I go to seek a Great Perhaps.
--Miles Halter
