“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war”

“It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?”

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

“When she fucked up, all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she collapsed into the enigma of herself. And that could have happened to me, but I saw where it led for her. So I still believe in the Great Perhaps, and I can believe in it in spite of having lost her.”


John Green
“This is so much fun, but I’m so sleepy. To be continued?”

“Ya'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”

“Wait, wait. I don't get it.'

'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells.”

“they love their hair because they're not smart enough to love anything more interesting”

“I hope my future kids will appreciate the fact that they'll most likely be named after fictional book characters.”

 “Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. Bolívar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?”

“Night falls fast. Today is the past.”

 “The whole passage was underlined in bleeding, water-soaked black ink. But there was another ink, this one a crisp blue, post-flood, and an arrow led from “How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.”

“This one's for Alaska Young!”

“Best day of my life was January 9, 1997. I was eight years old and my mom and I went to the zoo on a class trip. I liked the bears. She liked the monkeys. Best day ever. End of story.