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Looking for Alaska

- ONE OF AMERICA'S 100 MOST-LOVED NOVELS IN THE PBS GREAT AMERICAN READ - The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 international bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars</

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Characters

John Green (84)Miles 'Pudge' Halter (34)Alaska Young (14)Chip (2)The General In His Labyrinth (1)Old Man (1)

“And if I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, breakup, Parting Ways, Letting Go

“...if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, romance, Feelings, forces in love, Attraction

“'Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point.'”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Love & Relationships, Lovers, human relationship, Love & Connection, Human Connection

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Choices

“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Fate, Destiny, purpose, Materialistic

“You can’t just change me and then leave.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Changing Someone, Leaving, Running Away

“If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: People, Rain, admiration

“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: People, Things, Chaos

“If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Personality, Love, character

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, coming of age

“I’ve always liked quiet people: You never know if they’re dancing in a daydream or if they’re carrying the weight of the world.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Thoughts, People

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Escapism, Escaping Reality

“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved and people are being used.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Fate, Destiny, Chaos, insincerity

“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Hope, strength, Courage, Bravery

“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Books, Girls

“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: purpose, People, Chaos

“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Hope, broken, Optimism

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Suffering, forgiveness, Healing

“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. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I w…”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Sleep, Respect

“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. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I w…”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Unrequited Love, Missed Connections, The One, Love, romance