Latest Quotes

“We are driving through the place that she could not drive through, passing onto asphalt she never saw, and we are not dead. We are not dead! We are breathing and we are crying and now slowing down and moving back into the right lane.”

— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska

“She didn't leave me enough to discover her, but she left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.”

— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'”

— Mary Anne Radmacher, Redditors Were Asked to Share Quotes That Changed Their Lives. Here are 15 of the Most Memorable

“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, Looking for Alaska

“Memories fall apart, too. And then you're left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow.”

— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska

“Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I'm sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I'm gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you're gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must…”

— John Green, Old Man, Looking for Alaska

“If you want to kill yourself, kill what you don’t like. I had an old self that I killed. You can kill yourself too, but that doesn’t mean you got to stop living.”

— Archie's Final Project, Vargas, Archie's Final Project (2009)

“We are all going.”

— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska

“[She is] a woman so strong she burns heaven and drenches hell.”

— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska

“It's always darkest before dawn.”

— Thomas Fuller, Is it Really Darkest Just Before the Dawn? - Freakonomics

“He was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish life. The rest was darkness. 'Damn it,' he sighed. 'How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!'”

— John Green, The General In His Labyrinth, Looking for Alaska

“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.”

— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska

“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.”

— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska

“[I was] feeling—probably for the first time in my life—the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.”

— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska

“That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape--the world or the end of it?”

— John Green, Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska

“But even in the dark, I could see her eyes--fierce emeralds. She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every endeavor.”

— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”

— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska

“You can't just make me different and leave.”

— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska

“We can’t love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.”

— John Green, Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else in the greatest accomplishment.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Introduction to Ralph Waldo Emerson — Pensive Series