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  • #1
    John  Green
    “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

  • #2
    John  Green
    “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

  • #3
    John  Green
    “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.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #4
    John  Green
    “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.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #5
    John  Green
    “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”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #6
    John  Green
    “And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #7
    John  Green
    “I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #8
    John  Green
    “We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #9
    John  Green
    “I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #10
    John  Green
    “We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #11
    John  Green
    “I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #12
    John  Green
    “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

  • #13
    John  Green
    “We are greater than the sum of our parts.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #14
    John  Green
    “So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her.
    I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #15
    John  Green
    “We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #16
    John  Green
    “But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take Alaska's genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. There is something else entirely. There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska



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