“I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.”
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Miles "Pudge" Halter, p. 218
Looking for Alaska (2005)
Quotes from bookLooking for Alaska
Looking for Alaska is John Green's first novel, published in March 2005 by Dutton Juvenile. Based on his time at Indian Springs School, Green wrote the novel as a result of his desire to create meaningful Young Adult Fiction. The characters and main death in the plot are grounded in Green's life, while the story itself is fictional.Looking for Alaska follows the novel's main character and narrator Miles Halter, or "Pudge," to boarding school where he goes to seek the "Great Perhaps," the famous last words of Francois Rebelais. Throughout the first half of the novel, Miles and his friends Chip "The Colonel" Martin, Alaska Young, and Takumi Hikohito grow very close and the section culminates in Alaska's death. In the second half of the novel, Miles and his friends work to discover the missing details of the night Alaska died. While struggling to reconcile Alaska's death, Miles grapples with Simón Bolivar's last words and the meaning of life, leaving the conclusion to these topics unresolved.
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Miles "Pudge" Halter about Alaska Young, p. 88
Looking for Alaska (2005)
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Dr. Hyde explaining a quote by Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, p. 174
Looking for Alaska (2005)
“[We] had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth.”
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Miles "Pudge" Halter, p. 218
Looking for Alaska (2005)
“How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?”
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Alaska Young, p. 82
Looking for Alaska (2005)
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Alaska Young and Miles "Pudge" Halter, p. 54
Looking for Alaska (2005)
“Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape—the world or the end of it?”
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Alaska Young, p. 19
Looking for Alaska (2005)
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"That's not any better!"
Chip "the Colonel" Martin and Alaska Young, pp. 59-60
Looking for Alaska (2005)
“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”
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Alaska Young, p. 52
Looking for Alaska (2005)
“I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.”
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Alaska Young, p. 80
Looking for Alaska (2005)
“God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.”
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Chip "the Colonel" Martin, p. 71
Looking for Alaska (2005)
“Prick us, we bleed. Prick him, he pops.”
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Alaska Young, p. 110
Looking for Alaska (2005)
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Chip "the Colonel" Martin and Miles "Pudge" Halter, p. 14
Looking for Alaska (2005)
“Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”
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Alaska Young, p. 44
Looking for Alaska (2005)
