Looking for Alaska by John Green

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Miles "Pudge" Halter is abandoning his safe-okay, boring-life. Fascinated by the last words of famous people, Pudge leaves for boarding school to seek what a dying Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Pudge becomes encircled by friends whose lives are everything but safe and boring. Their... read more

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Miles "Pudge" Halter: Loves reading famous last words. Main character. Goes through life seeking the "Great Perhaps."
Alaska Young: Crazy, beautiful, wild, reckless girl.
Chip "The Colonel" Martin: Add a description of this character.
Takumi Hikohito
Lara
The Eagle
Jake
Kevin Richman

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Memorable Quotes

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of that phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”

First Sentence

THE WEEK BEFORE I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party.

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