Beth
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“There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun
“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.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know. ”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun
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