I think about how much depends upon a best friend. Then you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not.
John GreenI figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable."
Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.
I mean, it’s stupid to miss someone you didn’t even get along with. But I don’t know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with.
John GreenUnrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
John GreenI'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
John GreenTags: fiction alaska-young looking-for-alaska alaska miles
I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance...
John GreenThat smile could end wars and cure cancer.
John GreenAll along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to. Someone who — because no one thought she was a person — had no one to really talk to.
John GreenTags: truth
You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different..
John GreenTags: lost-love
I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like you're given the choice to say bad-bye, or awful-bye, or couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye. Everytime you leave, it's supposed to be a good one.
John GreenTags: goodbye
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