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51 Striking Quotes From 'Looking For Alaska' That Will Soothe Your Aching Soul

But not knowing would keep me from caring. 
Marisa Donnelly
August 2, 2016
“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
Tagged: Quote, Thomas Edison, Beautiful, travel, Explore, Somewhere
“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.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Passionate People, Intense People, Living With Intensity, Longing To Be Someone Else
“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 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 a hurricane. ”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Love, Looking At Her, Sleeping, Innocence, Crush, Childlike Love, Innocent Love
“True love will triumph in the end - which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Love, Triumph, Beautiful Lie
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: forgiveness, Peace Of Mind, Anger
“I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Perfect Words
“Those awful things are survivable because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: surviving, Moving On, Overcoming Obstacles, Overcoming, strength
“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: surviving, Overcoming Obstacles, Overcoming, strength, broken, Feeling Broken, Hope, My Favorites
“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.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Thoughts, Human Connection, Not Alone, Feelings
“There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Death, Pain, Losing Life, Circle Of Life
“In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Smells, Smell Of A Woman, Love, Love & Relationships, Smell Of Love, Lust
“I realized the importance of curves, of the thousand places where girls' bodies ease from one place to another, from arc of the foot to ankle to calf, from calf to hip to waist to breast to neck to ski-slope nose to forehead to shoulder to the concave arch of the back to the butt to the etc. I'd noticed curves before, of course, but I had never quite apprehended their significance.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Girls, Curves, Girls With Curves, Appreciation Of The Female Body, Female Body, Describing The Female Body, Loving The Female Body, Love, Women With Curves
“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: teenagers, Invincibile, Invincibility, Being A Teenager, Life
“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.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: teenagers, Invincibile, Invincibility, Being A Teenager, Life, Cannot Fail, strength
“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.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Living In The Future, Looking Ahead, Not Living In The Moment, Stuck, Feeling Stuck
“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Death, Smart, Being Smart, Talking About Death, Dying Young
“Francois Rabelais. He was a 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.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Death, Dying Young, Asking Questions, Seeking Answers, Great Perhaps, Questioning Life, Trying To Understand, Life Questionining
“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.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Instant, Death, Quickness, Quickness Of Death, Explaining Death, Trying To Understand Death, Too Late, Understanding Life, Trying To Understand, Knowing Better, Life, Future
“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.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Instant, Death, Quickness, Quickness Of Death, Explaining Death, Trying To Understand Death, Too Late, Understanding Life, Trying To Understand, Knowing Better, Life, Future, Knowing, Love, Always Loving
“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Falling Apart, Mental Illness, Pain, hurt, Losing Yourself
“'Sometimes I don't get you,' I said.
She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You'll never get me. That's the whole point.'”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Trying To Understand, Love, Understanding The Opposite Sex, Understanding Love, Understanding Life
“When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Trying To Understand, Suffering, Pain, Understanding Pain, Falling Apart
“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.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Trying To Understand, Suffering, Pain, Understanding Pain, Falling Apart, Searching For Home, Searching For Answers, Understanding Life
“We are greater than the sum of our parts.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Who We Are, Defining Ourselves, humanity
“You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can't remember, because I never knew.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Who We Are, Defining Ourselves, humanity, Trying To Understand, Trying To Understand Death, Struggling With Death, Pain, After Death, Unanswered Questions, Fear, Moving Forward
“Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Trying To Understand, Suffering, Pain, Understanding Pain, Falling Apart, Searching For Answers, Understanding Life
“But there was so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Life, Living life, Simple Things, Simple Pleasures, Living, Existing, To Do, My Favorites
“More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Trying To Understand, Understanding Death, After Death, Love, Love After Death, Pain, Injustice Of Death
“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.”
— Chip, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Trying To Understand, Understanding Death, Love After Death, Pain, Injustice Of Death, Suffering, Life And Death, humanity
“I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be discovered. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved. I still did not know her as I wanted to, but I never could. She made it impossible for me.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Trying To Understand, Understanding Death, After Death, Love, Love After Death, Pain, Injustice Of Death, Mystery