“I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Instant, Death, Quickness, Quickness Of Death, Explaining Death
“I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.”— John Green, amazon.comTagged: Perfect Words
“In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else's, dying again.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Ending, End Of Life, Being human, Death, Impending Death
“We can’t love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.comTagged: Love, Loving Each Other, Love & Relationships, Crooked Hearts, humanity
“There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.comTagged: Death, Pain, Losing Life, Circle Of Life
“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.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.comTagged: Thoughts, Human Connection, Not Alone, Feelings
“In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.comTagged: Smells, Smell Of A Woman, Love, Love & Relationships, Smell Of Love
“I realized the importance of curves, of the thousand places where girls' bodies ease from one place to another, from arc of the foot to ankle to calf, from calf to hip to waist to breast to neck to ski-slope nose to forehead to shoulder to the concave arch of the back to the butt to the etc. I'd not…”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Girls, Curves, Girls With Curves, Appreciation Of The Female Body, Female Body
“Those awful things are survivable because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.comTagged: surviving, Moving On, Overcoming Obstacles, Overcoming, strength
“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Falling Apart, Mental Illness, Pain, hurt, Losing Yourself
“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 sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopel…”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Love, Looking At Her, Sleeping, Innocence, Crush
“'Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You'll never get me. That's the whole point.'”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Trying To Understand, Love, Understanding The Opposite Sex, Understanding Love, Understanding Life
“I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be discovered. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved. I still did not know her as I wanted to, but I never could. She made it impossible for me.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Trying To Understand, Understanding Death, After Death, Love, Love After Death
“True love will triumph in the end - which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.”— John Green, amazon.comTagged: Love, Triumph, Beautiful Lie
“I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Passionate People, Intense People, Living With Intensity, Longing To Be Someone Else
“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”— John Green, amazon.comTagged: Quote, Thomas Edison, Beautiful, travel, Explore
“But there was so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.comTagged: Life, Living life, Simple Things, Simple Pleasures, Living
“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, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: teenagers, Invincibile, Invincibility, Being A Teenager, Life
“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. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin…”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: teenagers, Invincibile, Invincibility, Being A Teenager, Life
“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.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Living In The Future, Looking Ahead, Not Living In The Moment, Stuck, Feeling Stuck
“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.comTagged: Death, Smart, Being Smart, Talking About Death, Dying Young
“I felt the heaves of his chest as we realized over and over again that we were still alive. I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, God we must look so lame, but it doesn't much matter when you have just now realized, all the time later, that you are still alive.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Ending, End Of Life, Being human, Death, Impending Death
“Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.comTagged: Death, Dying Young, Asking Questions, Seeking Answers, Great Perhaps
“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.comTagged: surviving, Overcoming Obstacles, Overcoming, strength, broken
“He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go…”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Instant, Death, Quickness, Quickness Of Death, Explaining Death
“When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Trying To Understand, Suffering, Pain, Understanding Pain, Falling Apart
“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, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Trying To Understand, Suffering, Pain, Understanding Pain, Falling Apart
“We are greater than the sum of our parts.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Who We Are, Defining Ourselves, humanity
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”— John Green, amazon.comTagged: forgiveness, Peace Of Mind, Anger
“You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left…”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.comTagged: Who We Are, Defining Ourselves, humanity, Trying To Understand, Trying To Understand Death