Looking for Alaska

by John Green

At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.

“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 just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit.”

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.