Earlier this week, John Green took to Twitter to announce that his first book, Looking for Alaska, will be joining The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns for the YA author’s book-to-film movie adaptions.
The book will be adapted by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, who is also the brilliance behind the adaption of The Fault in Our Stars, and will be directed by relatively new Becca Thomas.
Green shared more about the upcoming movie on his Tumblr, saying:
If you’re unfamiliar with the New York Times Bestseller, Looking for Alaska is the story of a boy names Miles “Pudge” Halter who leaves his hometown in Florida to attend a boarding school in Alabama. He forms an eclectic group of friends, including the mysterious, smart and funny girl, Alaska, who he quickly becomes infatuated with.
Although we’re sure the film is going to be a hit, much like his other films, including one that is yet to even hit theaters, the book is definitely worth a read.
(SPOILER ALERT: You will cry, and you will cry hard.)
But just in case you need further convincing, below are some of the best quotes from Looking for Alaska:
“When adults say, ‘Teenagers think they are invincible’ with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”
“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 the 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.”
“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.”
“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”
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