And if I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?
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Looking for Alaska
- ONE OF AMERICA'S 100 MOST-LOVED NOVELS IN THE PBS GREAT AMERICAN READ - The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 international bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars</
...if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.
'Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point.'
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.
People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.
You can’t just change me and then leave.
If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.
People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.
If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.
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.
I’ve always liked quiet people: You never know if they’re dancing in a daydream or if they’re carrying the weight of the world.
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.
People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved and people are being used.
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.
When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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 w…
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 w…