Categories | Contemporary |
Author | John Green |
Publisher | Penguin Books; Reprint edition (December 28, 2006) |
Language | English |
Paperback | 221 pages |
Item Weight | 2.31 pounds |
Dimensions |
8.2 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches |
I. Book introduction
Looking for Alaska is a 2005 young adult novel by American author John Green. Based on his time at Indian Springs School, Green wrote the novel as a result of his desire to create meaningful young adult fiction. The characters and events of the plot are grounded in Green’s life, while the story itself is fictional.
Looking for Alaska follows the novel’s main character and narrator Miles Halter, or “Pudge,” to boarding school where he goes to seek a “Great Perhaps,” the famous last words of François Rabelais. Throughout the ‘Before’ section of the novel, Miles and his friends Chip “The Colonel” Martin, Alaska Young, and Takumi Hikohito grow very close and the section culminates in Alaska’s death. In the second half of the novel, Miles and his friends work to discover the missing details of the night Alaska died. While struggling to reconcile Alaska’s death, Miles grapples with the last words of Simón Bolívar and the meaning of life, leaving the conclusion to these topics unresolved.
Looking for Alaska is a coming-of-age novel that touches on themes of meaning, grief, hope, and youth–adult relationships. The novel won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association, and led the association’s list of most-challenged books in 2015 due to profanity and a sexually explicit scene. Ultimately, it became the fourth-most challenged book in the United States between 2010 and 2019. Schools in Kentucky, Tennessee, and several other states have attempted to place bans on the book. In 2005, Paramount Pictures received the rights to produce a film adaptation of Looking for Alaska; however, the film failed to reach production. Looking for Alaska, a television miniseries, premiered as a Hulu Original on October 18, 2019.
Plot
Miles Halter, a teenage boy obsessed with the last words of famous people, leaves his regular high school in Florida to attend Culver Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama for his junior year. Miles’ reasoning for such a change is quoted by François Rabelais’s last words: “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” Miles’ new roommate, Chip “The Colonel” Martin, nicknames Miles “Pudge” and introduces Pudge to his friends: hip-hop MC Takumi Hikohito and Alaska Young, an intelligent, beautiful, and emotionally unstable girl. Learning of Pudge’s obsession with famous last words, Alaska informs him of Simón Bolívar’s: “Damn it. How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!” The two make a deal that if Pudge figures out what the labyrinth is and how to escape it, Alaska will find him a girlfriend. Later, Alaska sets Pudge up with a Romanian classmate, Lara.
Unfortunately, Pudge and Lara have a disastrous date, ending with a concussed Pudge throwing up on Lara’s pants. Alaska and Pudge grow closer, and he begins to fall in love with her. However, she insists on keeping their relationship platonic because she has a boyfriend at Vanderbilt University named Jake, whom she insists that she loves.
On his first night at Culver Creek, Pudge is kidnapped, wrapped up and gagged with duct tape and thrown into a lake by the “Weekday Warriors,” a group of rich schoolmates who blame the Colonel and his friends for the expulsion of their friend, Paul. Takumi claims that they are innocent because their friend Marya (Paul’s girlfriend) was also expelled during the incident. However, Alaska later admits to Miles that she had told on both Marya and Paul to the dean, Mr. Starnes, nicknamed “The Eagle”, to save herself from being expelled.
The gang celebrates a successful series of pranks by drinking and partying, and an inebriated Alaska confides about her mother’s death from an aneurysm when she was eight years old. Although she failed to understand it at the time, she feels guilty for not calling 911. Pudge figures that her mother’s death made Alaska impulsive and rash. He concludes that the labyrinth was a person’s suffering and that humans must try to find their way out. Afterward, Pudge grows closer to Lara, and they start dating. A week later, after another “celebration,” an intoxicated Alaska and Pudge spend the night with each other. Soon, Alaska receives a phone call that causes her to be hysterical. Insisting that she has to leave, Alaska drives away while still drunk, and the Colonel and Pudge distract Mr. Starnes. They later learn that Alaska was driving under the influence and died.
The Colonel and Pudge are devastated, blame themselves, wonder about her reasons for undertaking the urgent drive, and even contemplate that she might have deliberately killed herself. The Colonel insists on questioning Jake, her boyfriend, but Pudge refuses, fearing that he might learn that Alaska never loved him. They argue, and the Colonel accuses Pudge of loving only an idealized Alaska he made up. Pudge realizes the truth and reconciles with the Colonel.
To celebrate Alaska’s life, Pudge, the Colonel, Takumi, and Lara team up with the Weekday Warriors to hire a male stripper to speak at Culver’s Speaker Day, a prank that Alaska had developed before her death. The whole school finds it hilarious; even Mr. Starnes acknowledges how clever it was. Pudge finds Alaska’s copy of The General in His Labyrinth with the labyrinth quote underlined and notices the words “straight and fast” written in the margins. He remembers Alaska died on the morning after the anniversary of her mother’s death and concludes that Alaska felt guilty for not visiting her mother’s grave and, in her rush, might have been trying to reach the cemetery. On the last day of school, Takumi confesses in a note that he was the last person to see Alaska and let her go as well. Pudge realizes that letting her go no longer matters as much. He forgives Alaska for dying, as he knows Alaska forgives him for letting her go.
About the Author (John Green)
John Michael Green (born August 24, 1977) is an American author, YouTuber, podcaster, and philanthropist. His books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide, including The Fault in Our Stars (2012), which is one of the best-selling books of all time. John Green’s rapid rise to fame and idiosyncratic voice are credited with creating a major shift in the young adult fiction market. John Green is also well known for his work in online video, most notably his YouTube ventures with his brother Hank Green.
Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Green was raised in Orlando, Florida, before attending boarding school outside of Birmingham, Alabama. He attended Kenyon College, graduating with a double major in English and religious studies in 2000. Green then spent six months as a student chaplain at a children’s hospital. He reconsidered his path and began working at Booklist in Chicago while writing his first novel. His debut novel Looking for Alaska (2005) was awarded the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award. While living in New York City, Green published his second novel, An Abundance of Katherines (2006). Starting on January 1, 2007, John and his brother Hank launched the Vlogbrothers YouTube channel, a series of vlogs submitted to one another on alternating weekdays; the videos spawned an active online-based community called Nerdfighteria and an annual telethon-style fundraiser called Project for Awesome, both of which have persisted and grown over time.
John Green moved back to Indianapolis in 2007, and published three novels over the next three years: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances (2008, with Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle); his third solo novel, Paper Towns (2008); and Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010, with David Levithan). From 2010 to 2013, John and Hank launched several online video projects, including VidCon, an annual conference for the online video community, and Crash Course (2011–present), a wide-ranging educational channel. Green’s 2012 novel, The Fault in Our Stars, and the 2014 film adaptation were massive commercial and critical successes, leading to several other film and television adaptations of his work. He was included in Time magazine’s 2014 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Green’s subsequent projects, his novel Turtles All the Way Down (2017) and The Anthropocene Reviewed (2018–2021), dealt more directly with his anxiety and obsessive–compulsive disorder. The Anthropocene Reviewed began as a podcast in January 2018, with Green reviewing different facets of the Anthropocene on a five-star scale. The podcast was then adapted into The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (2021), his first nonfiction book. Since the mid-2010s, John Green has been a prominent advocate for global health causes: he is a trustee for Partners In Health (PIH), supporting their goal of reducing maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, and has worked with PIH and a number of organizations in fighting tuberculosis worldwide. Green’s second nonfiction book, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection, is set to be released in March 2025.
II. Reviewer: Looking for Alaska by John Green
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1. PATRICK reviews Looking for Alaska
My assistant Amanda has been a John Green fan for ages, which is one of the reasons I decided to start giving his stuff a read.
I decided to start here because it was one of his first books.
After I finished this book, I went to her and asked, “Are all of John Green’s books going to leave me feeling like I’ve had a hole kicked straight through my guts?”
“Not all of them,” she said. “But yeah. Some.”
I thought about this for a while, then asked her. “In Name of the Wind, when X happens, did it feel like that when you read it?”
(Except I didn’t say X, obviously. I mentioned a particular scene in my first book.)
“Well,” Amanda said, “Not really. His scene is more central to his book. But even so, yeah. It was kinda like that.”
“Shit,” I said. “Sorry about that.”
So yeah. Sorry about that.
2. MEGS reviews Looking for Alaska
This was the first book I ever read by John Green. It was given to me in 2007 when I had no idea who John Green was. I wish this book had been around when I was a teen. I really enjoyed the story, but I think I would have liked it even more if I wasn’t already past that point in my life. Even still, I loved this book.
Miles is in search for the great perhaps, and has a fascination with famous last words. He meets Alaska Young who is basically the girl of his dreams. Their journey together at boarding school begins and John takes us on an exciting ride in which you constantly feel there is impending doom lurking ahead.
I’m going to keep this review short, because so much has been said on this book. The writing is as great as I always expect now from JG, and the story unfolds with a great pace that makes you never want to put the book down. You will probably feel some excitement, sadness, and maybe even a little anger reading this book, but I think this book will be memorable. This is an outstanding coming-of-age novel that doesn’t resort to a “happily ever after” ending, but the characters each seek closure on their own terms. The characters are well drawn, witty, and full of individual quirks. This book also includes some fun pranks, some great humor, and some shocking turns of events. I loved the “before”/”after” and the whole countdown. I thought that was a really neat tool that helped build suspense.
Looking For Alaska is a book I still love and recommend years later, and occasionally still think about. It remains my favorite JG book, and I would like to personally thank the person who gave me this book for introducing me to this wonderful writer.
Recommend to everyone, really!
3. NILUFER OZMEKIK reviews Looking for Alaska
I know so many author fans’ favorite book is Fault in our stars! But my all time favorite work of John Green is absolutely this book!
You ask me why? I say: those characters, those brilliant dialogues, that freaking, mind blowing trage… okay I’m shutting my mouth…
This time I’m not gonna be the one who gives detailed spoilers about the story she fell so hard.
I’m also not gonna write pages and pages comments to express how much I loved this book! I did! I do! I will!
So I’m letting my favorite characters make the talk by quoting their remarkable dialogues! Here are they: ( oh, and one more thing: if you didn’t watch the marvelous Hulu adaptation of the book, give it a try: it definitely and adroitly reflected the soul of the book! )
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive!”
“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.”
“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.”
“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.” ( I think this line is worth to get tattooed on my wrist)
“I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.” ( another tattoo line for me)
“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”
“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.”
Yes, I think I’ll keep rereading this one! It’s already at my all time favorites list!
4. JESSICA reviews Looking for Alaska
i really wish i had read this when it first came out, because i think john greens writing has become stronger over time, so i didnt quite love this as much as his more recent stuff. but its still classic JG – need i say more?
i know JG is one of those polarising authors – you either hate him or you love him with no in between – but i find his characterisation of teens really fascinating. many claim his characters are pretentious. i mean, how many teenagers do you know literally searching for their great perhaps like pudge? probably none. but i think he does a great job at portraying teenagers how they perceive themselves. i definitely thought i was an intellectual and enlightened human at that age as well, so i get it.
overall, not my favourite book by him, but it still has that quintessential john green touch that i adore.
↠ 3.5 stars
5. CHARLES J. PARRY reviews Looking for Alaska
Realistic brilliance!
John Green has published numerous brilliant books for the world, which both young and old adults have not only cried, but also laughed over. His writing is relatable, allowing the reader to connect to the book on a deeper level than other novels. Looking for Alaska manages to display exciting adventures using 100% real life characters and settings. The novel contains a number of thrills, pranks, and humor, the majority of which take place on one campus, all in less than 250 pages.
Living with a minor life in Florida, Miles “Pudge” Halter, who memorizes last words as a hobby, makes the transition from old life to his new, more appealing one at a boarding school in hot and dry Alabama. Upon his arrival, not only does he realize he must transition from the hot, humid weather of his home state to the more awful, hot air of his new home, but he also must transition from a life of innocence to a life full of smoking, drinking, and interacting with a gorgeous girl. Miles’s journey of recreating himself unfolds as he meets new friends, new love interests, and even gets himself into a bit of trouble. The time he spends there makes his old life look even more depressing, until a disastrous event happens halfway through the book. The second half of the book shows how Miles, as well as his friends, cope with this disaster while they search for answers as to what might’ve caused it. Looking for Alaska not only becomes a mystery, but also questions how to escape the “labyrinth” of the world.
Looking for Alaska is a fairly easy read, which will more than likely keep you on your feet the whole time with humor and interesting characters. It contains mature humor, scenes, and language, so it may be inappropriate for young children or tweens; not only because of the dirty details, but also because it takes maturity to appreciate the book. I would highly recommend this novel to you if you are a teenager or in your early 20’s, specifically because the connections you are able to create with the characters and situations are unreal. As a teenager myself, I can say I felt a connection to the book; one of my favorite quotes, occurring at the end of the novel, tells about the invincibility of teenagers and humans as a whole. After describing that energy cannot be created or destroyed and humans therefore are indestructible, John Green goes on to say “When adults say, ‘Teenagers think they’re so invincible’ with that sly stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are” (Page 220). Although this is only a taste of the book, you can see the appeal it has to teens, as well as the hint of understanding it contains.
In addition, although the entire book is fabulous, I do have to say that the first half really is the heart of the book. After the first half, the chapters seem to lack something. Whether this is the lack of something, or someone, Looking for Alaska still remains a good read, especially because the ending of the book pulls the novel together. Throughout Looking for Alaska, there is a search for the meaning of life, but more specifically what happens to us after we pass on. If you enjoy books with a deeper meaning than what is on the surface, I recommend this novel to you. All in all, Looking for Alaska is both a thrilling and somewhat heartbreaking book that tells a story of pranks and adventures, all while searching for a deeper meaning at the same time. I can guarantee you will come out of it with a better understanding of your life, which is why I highly recommend taking the time to read this book.
6. KIM DEISTER reviews Looking for Alaska
Fantastic read!
I initially picked this book to read for a literature class I am taking for a module on the censorship and banning of books for children and young adults. Having absolutely loved The Fault in Our Stars, when I saw this John Green novel on the ALA’s list of most frequently banned books in the 21st century, I jumped at it. The grounds for its censorship has been the presence of profanity, underage drinking and smoking, drug use, and sexual content. It is true, there is all of that, but presented in a realistic, true-to-life way. I am staunchly opposed to censorship and banning and this is a book that I not only don’t believe deserves to be banned, but it is one that I have made a “must read” for my own kids.
The novel takes place within the Culver Creek Preparatory High School near Birmingham, Alabama. Miles “Pudge” Halter is the new student, obsessed with the last words of famous people. He has transferred to Culver Creek in the hopes that he can find his own “Great Perhaps,” an idea that has come from the last words of François Rabelais, “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” At his last school, Miles was a bit socially awkward, more obsessed with reading biographies than with socializing with friends, and he wants to start fresh at Culver Creek. The first person he meets is Chip “The Colonel” Martin, his new roommate who introduces Miles to his own best friends. Takumi Hikohito is obsessed with hip hop and rapping and Alaska Young is a beautiful girl, although emotionally rather unstable, for whom Miles immediately falls.
In many ways, Alaska is the glue that holds the group of friends together. She is beautiful and intelligent and fun to be with and very enigmatic. Although we see different parts of her throughout the book, we, as readers, never really know her any more than her friends do. Even at the end, there are questions that leave you angsty and emotional. Her story is her own and threads of it run through the stories of all of her friends. She is irrevocably a part of their own histories in a myriad of ways.
More than anything, it is a story of coming of age, with all of the pain and angst that goes along with it. There are beautiful moments, funny moments heart wrenching moments, touching moments. There are moments of laughter and moments of sadness. It is an absolutely beautiful story.
One of the things I really enjoyed about the book was its structure. It is created in two parts, “Before” and “After,” leading us to and from a pivotal point that I won’t describe. The chapters underscored that concept, marking time like “forty-five days before.” You know something is going to happen, but you have no idea what it is.
My Recommendation: I think that this is a beautiful book that touches on real situations in ways that are both touching and tragic.
7. SAVANNAH BULLARD reviews Looking for Alaska
10/10 always recommend
I loved being reminded of why this has been my favorite book for more than half my life. I also loved reading it from the perspective of a person who’s lived 100% more life since the first time I picked it up.
8. JAMES R. GILLIGAN reviews Looking for Alaska
Rebellion! Romance! Tragedy!
John Green’s first novel features the quintessential characteristics of 21st-century Young Adult literature—a self-effacing and eloquent narrator, an enigmatic and charming love interest with a sad past, quirky supporting characters, adult authority figures who are more mild than fearsome, a devastating tragedy, a search for meaning, and profound epiphanies. Published nearly twenty years ago, Looking for Alaska might even be considered one of the pioneering 21st-century YA novels, and the impact it has had on much of the YA literature that has followed in its wake is a testament to its excellence. A classic worth the read.
9. FABIAN reviews Looking for Alaska
Here’s me acknowledging the power of John Green. & hats off!
No, this one is not as bittersweet as “The Fault in Our Stars”, but still, this is unputdownable supreme! Its the type of literature that gets one excited about reading, about reminiscing about adolescence and school. Because everyone has had a childhood, a first love, a stage of rebellion, this type of book strikes inner chords & you swiftly become infected with the virus of nostalgia.
To read one of his novels is to remember that you were once new & naive, too!
10. LOTTE reviews Looking for Alaska
I first read this book in 2008 when I was 14 and it turned out to be the book that sparked my love for literature.
I’ve always loved reading, but before that I only read for the sake of entertainment. Looking for Alaska was the first book that I thoroughly enjoyed reading, but that simultaneously and more importantly, made me think about greater issues in life for a long time after I had finished reading.
Now that I’m 21, I understand that while this remains to be a highly philosophical book, it’s not the “deepest” and most perfect book ever. However, it still means the world to me and I’ll always be thankful for John Green for writing it.
III. Looking for Alaska Quotes by John Green
The best book quotes from Looking for Alaska by John Green
“When you stopped wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you’d stop suffering when they did.”
“The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not.”
“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.”
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
“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.”
“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.”“They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.”
“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.”
“I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.”
“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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”“At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.”
“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.”
“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”
“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war”
“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.”
“I just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit.”
“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.”
“That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.”
“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.”“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.”
“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.”
“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?”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
Excerpted from Looking for Alaska by John Green
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