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"this story is so iconic, i feel myself grinning like an obsessed idiot (which i am) with every line.
it’s been two years since i read this and i was scared i wasn’t gonna love it anymore, but i take that back. i’m loving this way too much." — Feb 14, 2021 02:55AM
"this story is so iconic, i feel myself grinning like an obsessed idiot (which i am) with every line.
it’s been two years since i read this and i was scared i wasn’t gonna love it anymore, but i take that back. i’m loving this way too much." — Feb 14, 2021 02:55AM


“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.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska

“It's not because I want to make out with her."
Hold on." He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'd just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. "I just did some calculations, and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit”
― Looking for Alaska
Hold on." He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'd just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. "I just did some calculations, and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit”
― Looking for Alaska

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska

“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska

“What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska

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