“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“The way young people speak about one another's bodies says a great deal about our society. In today's world, boys are much more likely to objectify girl's bodies than the other way around. Boys will say amongst themselves that so-and-so has a nice rack, while girls will more likely say that a boy is cute, a term that describes both physical and emotional characteristics. This has the effect of turning girls into mere objects, while boys are seen by girls as whole people-"
And then Lara stood up, and in her delicate, innocent accent, cut Dr. William Morse off.
"You're so hot! I weesh you'd shut up and take off your clothes."
The students laughed, but all of the teachers turned around and looked at her, stunned silent. She sat down.
"What's you name, dear?"
"Lara,"she said.
"Now, Lara." Maxx said, looking down at his paper to remember the line, "what we have here is a very interesting case study- a female objectifying me, a male. It's so unusual that I can only assume you're making an attempt at humor."
Lara stood up again and shouted, "I'm not keeding! Take off your clothes."
He nervously looked down at the paper, and then looked up at all of us, smiling.
"Well, it is certainly important to subvert the patriarchal paradigm , and I suppose this is a way. All right, then.”
― Looking for Alaska
And then Lara stood up, and in her delicate, innocent accent, cut Dr. William Morse off.
"You're so hot! I weesh you'd shut up and take off your clothes."
The students laughed, but all of the teachers turned around and looked at her, stunned silent. She sat down.
"What's you name, dear?"
"Lara,"she said.
"Now, Lara." Maxx said, looking down at his paper to remember the line, "what we have here is a very interesting case study- a female objectifying me, a male. It's so unusual that I can only assume you're making an attempt at humor."
Lara stood up again and shouted, "I'm not keeding! Take off your clothes."
He nervously looked down at the paper, and then looked up at all of us, smiling.
"Well, it is certainly important to subvert the patriarchal paradigm , and I suppose this is a way. All right, then.”
― Looking for Alaska
“I have a date,' he explained. 'This is an emergency.' He paused to catch his breath. 'Do you know' - breath - 'how to iron?' I walked over to the pink shirt. It was wrinkled like an old woman who'd spent her youth sunbathing. If only the Colonel didn't ball up his every belonging and stuff it into random dresser drawers. 'I think you just turn it on and press it against the shirt, right?' I said. 'I don't know. I didn't even know we had an iron.' 'We don't. It's Takumi's. But Takumi doesn't know how to iron, either. And when I asked Alaska, she started yelling, "You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me." Oh God, I need to smoke. I need to smoke, but I can't reek when I see Sara's parents. Okay, screw it. We're going to smoke in the bathroom with the shower on. The shower has steam. Steam gets rid of wrinkles, right?”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
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