"Looking for Alaska" Quotes
A boy named Miles seeks adventure and love at a boarding school, but finds tragedy and self-discovery instead.
young adult | 221 pages | Published in 2005
Quotes
The Colonel's face was a map of the world. A world I couldn't trust.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.
The Great Perhaps was upon him, and he was invincible.
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 adults say, 'Teenagers think they are invincible' with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are.
Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
