"I go to seek a great perhaps
-Francois Rabelais"
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"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."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"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."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"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."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"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."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"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.""
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"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)

"I may die young, but at least I'll die smart."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"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."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"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. "
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"“Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls.”

Pudge to Alaska- “Have you really read all those books in your room?”

Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going to read them all. I call it my Life’s Library. Every summer since I was little, I’ve gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read. But there is so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I’ll have more time for reading when I’m old and boring.'"
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"We were kissing.
I thought: This is good.
I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad at all.
I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe.
Suddenly she laughed and pulled away from me. She wiggled a hand out of her sleeping bag and wiped her face. "You slobbered on my nose," she said, and laughed"
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war"
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

""Don't you know who you love, Pudge? You love the girl who makes you laugh and shows you porn and drinks wine with you. You don't love the crazy, sullen bitch.""
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"You're awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"Comment dis-tu 'Oh my God, I don't know nearly enough French to pass French II' en français?"
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant."
— John Muir (Travels in Alaska)

""Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska?""
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

" '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.'

~Alaska and Miles/Pudge, pg 54"
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

" 'How long have you been dating her?' I asked.
' Nine months. We never got along. I mean, I didn't even briefly like her. Like, my mom and my dad- my dad would get pissed, and then he would beat the shit out of my mom. And then my dad would be all nice and they'd have a honeymoon period. But with Sara, there's never a honeymoon period. God, how could she think I was a rat? I know, I know: Why don't we break up?' He ran a hand through his hair, clutching a fistful of it atop his head, and said, ' I guess I saty with her because she stays with me. And that's not an easy thing to do. I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.'"
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"Too pissed off to cry, I said, 'This is only making me hate her. I don't want to hate her. And what's the point, if that's all it's making me do?' Still refusing to answer how and why questions. Still insisting on an aura of mystery.
I leaned forward, head between by knees, and the Colonel placed a head on my upper back. 'The point is that there are always alsweres, Pudge.' And then he pushed air out between his pursed lips and I could hear the angry quiver in his voice as he repeated, 'There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.'
~Miles/Pudge and Chip/the Colonel, pg 168"
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"...Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention."
— Christopher Paolini (Eragon)

"Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. "
— Christopher Paolini (Eragon)

""can't all beasts be tamed?"
"
— Robin McKinley (Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast)

"Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult."
— Anne Rice (Interview With the Vampire)

"...Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.
- Armand"
— Anne Rice (Interview With the Vampire)

"Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!"
— Anne Rice (Interview With the Vampire)

""Die Zeit", entgegnete Master Keith, "ist das Feuer, in dem wir verbrennen.""
— Christoph Marzi

"Die Welt ist gierig, und manchmal verschwinden Menschen in ihrem Schlund, ohne jemals wieder gesehen zu werden."
— Christoph Marzi (Lycidas)

"Firnis lächelte gütig. "Bücher sind lebendige Wesen", sagte er, "und wenn man ganz in sie eintaucht, dann erwachen sie zum Leben. Und wie die Gedanken, so bekommen auch die Buchstaben Flügel verliehen. Sie lösen sich vom Papier und flattern im Raum herum."
— Christoph Marzi (Malfuria)

"Die meisten Lügen sind wahr und spinnen sich von ganz allein, kaum jemand kannte diese Wahrheit besser als Colin Darcy. Wenn man erst einmal der Melodie der Worte zu lauschen beginnt, dann pfeift man sie bald selbst. Und wenn Lügen wie kunstvolle Lieder sind, dann gehörte Helen Darcy, Colins Mutter, zu jenem seltenen Menschenschlag, der allzeit eine beschwingte Melodie auf den Lippen trägt."
— Christoph Marzi (Fabula)

"Magie ist das, was wir tief in uns spüren, wenn wir lächeln"
— Christoph Marzi (Somnia)

"Die Welt ist gierig, und manchmal umschließen Nebel unsere Herzen, bis wir uns nicht einmal mehr daran erinnern können, wann unsere Träume zu sterben begannen."
— Christoph Marzi (Lumen)

"Die Welt ist wie Wasser, scharlachrot und sanft gefärbt mit hellem Himmel. Und manchmal sind die Träume, die sich tief in den vergessenen Liedern unserer Kindheit verbergen, wie die Pfade in den Tiefen Wäldern, von jenem schweren Dunkel, das allein zu betreten man sich scheut, weil was dort schlummert, nur selten ist, was man zu finden erhofft."
— Christoph Marzi (Somnia)

"I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient, I've brought you someone else's."
— Annette Curtis Klause (Blood and Chocolate)

""Men kill us, we kill men, because anything we're not is the thing we are taught to fear" - Vivian, Blood&Chocolate"
— Anette Curtis Klause

"In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other.
"
— Anette Curtis Klause

"He was raw and sharp and rich and throbbing with life. He was sweet blood after a long hunt. How could she have mistaken Aiden's kisses for this? They had been delicious and smooth like the brief comfort of chocolate, but they had never been enough."
— Annette Curtis Klause (Blood and Chocolate)

"Why me?" she asked, holding on to him.

"Because you cared," he whispered. "You cared so much for your people, it broke your heart to see the pack in ruins. You cared so much for your mother, you risked your life for hers. You cared enough to save someone who wanted you dead. And because you walk like a queen."
— Annette Curtis Klause (Blood and Chocolate)

"I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said.... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived."
— Neil Gaiman (Stardust)

"There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire."
— Neil Gaiman (Stardust)

"While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe."
— Neil Gaiman (Stardust)

"I'm so into you, it's not even funny. (Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List)"
— Rachel Cohn