Looking For Alaska Quotes With Page Numbers
“Francois Rabelais. He was this 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, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 3
“At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 7
“That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 7
“Have you really read all those books in your room?”
Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter and Alaska Young, Pages 19, 20
“And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I’ve been smart longer.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Dr. Hyde, Page 32
“She’s cute, I thought, but you don’t need to like a girl who treats you like you’re ten: You’ve already got a mom.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 34
“I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn’t hate people who watched or played them.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 45
“Y’all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Alaska Young, Page 47
“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, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 48
“The Colonel led all the cheers.
Cornbread!” he screamed.
CHICKEN!” the crowd responded.
Rice!”
PEAS!”
And then, all together: “WE GOT HIGHER SATs.”
Hip Hip Hip Hooray!” the Colonel cried.
YOU’LL BE WORKIN’ FOR US SOMEDAY!”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter and Chip Martin, Page 48
“I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Alaska Young, Page 52
“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.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Alaska Young, Page 54
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape 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, Looking for Alaska, Alaska Young, Page 54
“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, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter and Alaska Young, Page 54
“It’s the eternal struggle, Pudge. The good versus the naughty. …
Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.”~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Alaska Young, Page 56
“It’s not because I want to make out with her.”
Hold on.” He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he’d just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. “I just did some calculations, and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Chip Martin (The Colonel), Page 77
“I just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Chip Martin, Page 78
“It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Alaska Young, Page 82
“She said, “It’s not life or death, the labyrinth.”
“Um, okay. So what is it?”
“Suffering,” she said. “Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?… Nothing’s wrong. But there’s always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there’s a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 82
“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Alaska Young, Page 83
“They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Alaska Young, Page 84
“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 87
“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 was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 88
“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.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Alaska Young, Page 96
“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, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 100
“What the hell is that?” I laughed.
“It’s my fox hat.”
“Your fox hat?”
“Yeah, Pudge. My fox hat.”
“Why are you wearing your fox hat?” I asked.
“Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Takumi Hikohito, Page 104
“I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, “I want to go too! I want to go too!” And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: “We are all going.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 120
“We were kissing.
I thought: This is good.
I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad at all.
I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe.
Suddenly she laughed and pulled away from me. She wiggled a hand out of her sleeping bag and wiped her face. “You slobbered on my nose,” she said, and laughed”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 122
“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Alaska Young, Page 124
“But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Lara Buterskaya, Page 128
“I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 142
“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, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 144
“What is an “instant” death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 146
“I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can’t due to deadness.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 151
“At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Dr. hyde, Page 157
“For she had embodied the Great Perhaps–she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 172
“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 or fear of hell, but because He is God.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter quoting Rabia Basri. Page 174
“We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we’d learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you’d stop suffering when they did.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 196
“Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories fall apart, too. And then you’re left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. 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, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 196
“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together
commenced to fall apart.”~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 196
“Because memories fall apart, too. And you’re left with nothing.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 196
“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, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 213
“After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter (Pudge), Page 216
“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 right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. 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. And as I walked back to give Takumi’s note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. 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 Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 218
“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.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 218
“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, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 219
“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 220
“We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 220
“When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. 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. 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 and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Pages 220-21
“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, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 221
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Looking For Alaska Labyrinth Quotes Page Numbers
Looking for Alaska is a novel by John Green that focuses on the story of Miles Halter, a 16-year-old boy who moves to a boarding school in Alabama to escape the mundane life he has been living.
The novel follows Miles and his newfound friends, Alaska Young and Chip Martin, as they navigate through the teenage life of parties and first loves—all while trying to figure out life’s labyrinth.
Some of the Looking For Alaska quotes about Labyrinth include:
“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, Looking for Alaska, Alaska Young, Page 59
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape 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, Looking for Alaska, Alaska Young, Page 54
“It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Alaska Young, Page 82
“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.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Alaska Young, Page 216
“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, Looking for Alaska, Miles Halter, Page 219
Looking for Alaska quotes last words
“I have tried so hard to do right.”
(last words of President Grover Cleveland)
“So this guy,” I said, standing in the doorway of the living room. “François Rabelais. He was this 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, Looking for Alaska, Page 5
“Um, I know a lot of people’s last words.” It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Page 11
“Sometimes,just because they’re funny. Like in the Civil War, a general named Sedgwick said, ‘They couldn’t hit an elephant from this dis—’ and then he got shot.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Page 127
“Thomas Edison’s last words were: “It’s very beautiful out there.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Page 221
“…I would be very grateful indeed if my last words were of love to those with whom I have shared this brief and wonderous flicker of life>.”
The colonel quotes Looking for Alaska
“I wanted so badly to make them pay for what they had done, to make them feel even a sliver of the pain they had caused us, but I was powerless and screaming that night was all I could do.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Chip Martin, Page 87
“It’s not because I want to make out with her.”
Hold on.” He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he’d just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. “I just did some calculations, and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Chip Martin, Page 77
Looking for Alaska Quotes Great Perhaps
“It’s not because I want to make out with her, but because I want to know what it’s like to be close to someone and understand the Great Perhaps. Death is a part of life, and by facing it, we can learn to appreciate the beauty of living.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Page 5
I thought of the Great Perhaps and the things that might happen and the people I might meet and who my roommate might be.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Page 8
“Not really,” he said, then lit a cigarette and handed it to me. I inhaled. Coughed. Wheezed. Gasped for breath. Coughed again. Considered vomiting. Grabbed the swinging bench, head spinning, and threw the cigarette to the ground and stomped on it, convinced my Great Perhaps did not involve cigarettes.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Page 16
Looking For Alaska Characters
Miles Halter: Miles is a young man obsessed with seeking his own “Great Perhaps”. He attends Culver Creek Preparatory High.
The Colonel (Chip Martin): The Colonel is a young man built like Adonis and is Miles’ friend at Culver Creek Preparatory High.
Takumi Hikohito: Takumi is a talented hip-hop MC and is Miles’ friend at Culver Creek Preparatory High.
Alaska Young: Alaska is a beautiful young woman who is wild, unpredictable, and carries a heavy burden. She does not reciprocate the same romantic feelings for Miles.
Dr. Hyde (The Old Man): Dr. Hyde is the religious studies teacher at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Looking for Alaska. He believes positively in his students while maintaining an authoritative role within the classroom environment.
What are the last lines in Looking for Alaska?
The last lines in Looking for Alaska are,” Thomas Edison’s last words were: “It’s very beautiful out there.” I don’t know where there is, but I believe it’s somewhere, and I hope it’s beautiful.” Page 221
What were Alaska’s last words in Looking for Alaska?
Alaska’s last words in the book were: “F***,” she said. “Just get rid of the Eagle for me,” she said, her sobs childlike half screams. “God oh God, I’m so sorry.”
However, in Miles’ essay at the end of the novel, he speculates that her last thought was, “it’s very beautiful over there,” a quote from Thomas Edison’s last words.
What is a quote from Dr. Hyde from Looking for Alaska?
“And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I’ve been smart longer.”
~John Green, Looking for Alaska, Dr. Hyde, Page 32
What does Alaska tell Miles after she kisses him?
After she kisses Miles, Alaska tells him she chose the name ‘Alaska’ because she liked the idea of it being ‘big’ and ‘far away’ from her hometown of Vine Station, Alabama.
She reveals that the name comes from the Aleut word “Alyeska,” which means “that which the sea breaks against,” symbolizing her strength and resilience when she thinks of her new name.
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