Looking for Alaska is an amazing novel by John Green. It’s a first novel of John Green. Basically, It’s a fictional teenager’s novel.
The main theme of this novel is hope, grief and youth-adult relationships.
In this novel, John displays the general challenges of teenage years like an education, new environments and relationships.
The story of this novel is fascinating and labyrinth. The story is not only fictional but also based on John Green’s early life.
In it, John depicts his boarding school days in the story. This novel depicts the story of a teenage boy named Miles “Pudge” Halter of Orlando. Who is looking for a “The Great Perhaps”.
The last word of this character is inspired by the last words of poet Francois Rabelais.
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The novel was also awarded the Michael L. Printz in 2006 by the American Library Association. Apart from this, the book has also been featured in the Top 10 Best Book for Young Adults and Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers.
This novel is the fourth-most challenged book and the fourth-most banned book in the United States because of its profanity and sexually explicit scene.
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Best Looking For Alaska Quotes :
“Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.” – John Green
“I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.” – John Green
“When you stopped wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you’d stop suffering when they did.” – John Green
“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.” – John Green
“I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.” – John Green
“Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future.” – John Green
“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.” – John Green
“I always have something to read.” – John Green
“I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.” – John Green
“The cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering.” – John Green
“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.” – John Green
“All smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.” – John Green
John Green Looking For Alaska Quotes :
“At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.” – John Green
“A lot of times, people die how they live.” – John Green
“We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.” – John Green
“Entropy increases. Things fall apart.” – John Green
“We are greater than the sum of our parts.” – John Green
“You can’t just make yourself matter and then die.” – John Green
“You’re awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted.” – John Green
“Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone’s about to die.” – John Green
“Everything that comes together falls apart.” – John Green
“You can’t just make me different, and the leave. Because I was fine before.” – John Green
“There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.” – John Green
“When you stop wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you stop suffering when they do.” – John Green
Looking For Alaska Book Quotes :
“I wasn’t disappointed. My expectations had been met.” – John Green
“Some mysteries aren’t meant to be solved.” – John Green
“Night falls fast. Today is the past.” – John Green
“No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.” – John Green
“Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.” – John Green
“There is no best and no worst, …those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is.” – John Green
“I hated being careful, too – or wanted to, at least.” – John Green
“I was not religious. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering. – John Green
“Listening quietly” was my general social strategy.” – John Green
“We think that we are invincible because we are.” – John Green
“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.” – John Green
“Whatever. Great day. Today. Best day of my life.” – John Green
Best Quotes From Looking For Alaska :
“I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.” – John Green
“Best day of my life hasn’t happened yet. But I know it. I see it everyday.” – John Green
“Best things come to all those in life who wait!!” – John Green
“The hardest part about pranking is not being able to confess.” – John Green
Looking For Alaska Love Quotes :
“Don’t you know who you love? You love the girl who makes you laugh.” – John Green
“They love their hair because they’re not smart enough to love something more interesting.” – John Green
“I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.” – John Green
Looking For Alaska Labyrinth Quotes :
“We had to forgive to survive the labyrinth.” – John Green
“It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem.” – John Green
“Try to get out of the labyrinth of suffering.” – John Green
“There’s your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.” – John Green
“Never spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth.” – John Green
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