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“How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“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

“We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think we are invincible because we are.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I want more numbers that I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I can not tell you thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Pain demands to be felt.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I’m just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“It's turtles all the way fucking down, Holmesy. You're trying to find the turtle at the bottom of the pile, but that's not how it works."

"Because it's turtles all the way down," I said again, feeling something akin to a spiritual revelation.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane.”
― John Green Looking for Alaska

“You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“You seemed locked inside of your mind, and I can't know what's going on in there, and it scared me.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“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

“I thought at first she was just dead. Just darkness. Just a body being eaten by bugs. I thought about her a lot like that, as something's meal. What was her-green eyes, half a smirk, the soft curves of her legs-would soon be nothing, just the bones I never saw. I thought about the slow process of becoming bone and then fossil and then coal that will, in millions of years, be mined by humans of the future, and how they would their homes with her, and then she would be smoke billowing out of a smokestack, coating the atmosphere.

I still think that, sometimes. I still think that, sometimes, think that maybe "the afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe she was just a matter, and matter gets recycled.”
― John Green , Looking for Alaska

“And if Alaska took her own life, that is the hope I wish I could have given her. Forgetting her mother, failing her mother and her friends and herself -those are awful things, but she did not need to fold into herself and self-destruct. Those awful things are survivable because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. 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.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Yeah,” I said. “What is that? A bird? "It’s the swan,” he said. “Wow. A school with a swan. Wow.”
“That swan is the spawn of Satan. Never get closer to it than we are now.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“but there was no denying her smile. That smile could end wars and cure cancer.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her social worker said I had to tell her. I had to tell her she would die, so I told her she was going to heaven. She asked if I would be there, and I said that I would not, not yet. But eventually, she said, and I promised that yes, of course, very soon. And I told her that in the meantime we had great family up there that would take care of her. And she asked me when I would be there, and I told her soon. Twenty-two years ago.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I think she and I were talking about how much I adored skateboarding on the computer but how it would never even occur to me to try and step on a skateboard in real life, and then she said, 'Let's play Truth or Dare' and then you fucked her."
"Wait, you fucked her? In front of the Colonel?" Takumi cried.
"I didn't fuck her.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska