Looking for Alaska by John Green could be a book for anyone. Some people may not necessarily like the storyline, but there are so many great things that John Green points out about friends, family, religion, and just life in general that really made me think.
For example, this quote really made me think about how we, as human beings, spend our lives. Alaska Young was explaining her views to Pudge when she said, "'Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.... You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present'" (Green 54). I really think that what John Green points out about life in this quote is true. All of us think about the future and I think most of us don't really focus on what's going on in this point in time. We all have aspirations. Maybe you're in a race and you want to get a certain time, but you don't think you can do it. You think to yourself, "I'll get there eventually" but you don't push yourself to work really hard so that 'eventually' is months from now instead of years from now.
Maybe you're not into deep, thought-provoking quotes. Maybe you just like something light-hearted and funny. When Pudge and The Colonel were talking about Alaska, The Colonel didn't agree with what Pudge was saying so he said, "'I just did some calculations, and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit'" (Green 78). I don't know why this was so funny to me, but it was. I guess witty comments like this one are always funny. Maybe they are for you, too?
If you'd like to read some more Looking for Alaska quotes to see why you'd be interested in the book, you can click on the link here.
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