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“What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“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.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”
― 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

“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.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“After all this time, it seems to me like straight and fast is the only way out- but I choose the labyrinth. The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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

“That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Because memories fall apart, too. And you're left with nothing.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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

“I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“You can't just make me different, and the leave. Because I was fine before.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“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 Green, Looking for Alaska

“I’ve always liked quiet people: You never know if they’re dancing in a daydream or if they’re carrying the weight of the world.
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John Green's tumblr says he did not in fact write this quote and it is not from his book, Looking For Alaska”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I didn’t fall in love with you… I flew.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“Some people they grow wiser as they grow older. Unfortunately, most people just grow older.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“Listen, Tate. I want your mess. I want your clothes on my bedroom floor. I want your toothbrush in my bathroom. I want your shoes in my closet. I want your mediocre leftovers in my fridge.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“There's nothing in the world that compares to the feel and smell of brand-new rain.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“You deserve so much more than what you're allowing yourself to have.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“Don't ask about my past. And never expect a future.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“If you don't want a sarcastic answer, don't ask a stupid question”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love