Looking For Alaska Book Quotes

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

When you stopped wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you’d stop suffering when they did.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant.

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.

She left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.

I’m really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.

I mean, it’s stupid to miss someone you didn’t even get along with. But I don’t know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with.

Jesus, I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re going to do. I’m just going to do it.

And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!

At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

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.

Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.