12 Problems Only John Green Fans Will Understand

9. Knowing The Last Words Of Famous People

I must go in, the fog is rising: these were the last words of poet Emily Dickinson. I have tried so hard to do right: the last words of President Grover Cleveland.

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth? The last words of Simon Bolivar in Gabriel Garcias Marquez's stunning The General In His Labyrinth. Why do John Green fans know so many last words? Simple, the protagonist of Green's first novel Looking For Alaska - a guy called Miles Halter - is obsessed with this particular kind of deathly trivia, often quoting and discussing the significance of these words throughout the story. Now John Green fans quote them in bizarre, context-free circumstances, too.
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