“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 a kind of nostalgia… . 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.”
— Looking for Alaska by John Green
“That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. 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.”
— Looking for Alaska by John Green
“Don’t you know who you love, Pudge? You love the girl who makes you laugh and shows you porn and drinks wine with you. You don’t love the crazy, sullen bitch.”
— Looking for Alaska by John Green
“Rabe’a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, “I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven of fear of hell, but because He is God.”
— Looking for Alaska by John Green
“I’m not gonna meet someone like Diane Court at a kegger. I mean this girl was different, man. When we’d go out, we wouldn’t even have to go out. We’d just hang out. This girl made me trust myself. I was walking around feeling satisfied. Can you imagine that?”
— Lloyd Dobler
- Diane: I just can't have any social life right now.
- Lloyd: Don't worry about it. We're just having coffee. We'll be anti-social.
- Diane: Be friends?
- Lloyd: Yeah. With potential.
