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Maybe all the strings inside him broke,” she said.
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Margo Roth Spiegelman, Paper Towns.
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Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.
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Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
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People never learn anything by being told, they have to findout for themselves
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Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
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Looking for Alaska by John Green
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The point is that there are always answers, Pudge” (On finding out about her death)
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Looking for Alaska by John Green
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We are all going,” McKinley said to his wife, and we sure are. There’s your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.
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Looking for Alaska by John Green
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Up front, Takumi told Lara about the time Alaska got her boob honked over the summer, and Lara laughed. That was the first time I had seen her (Alaska), and now we were coming to the last. More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can’t due to deadness, and then i leaned forward, my forehead against the back of Takumi’s headrest, and I cried, whimpering, and I didn’t even feel sadness so much as pain. It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.
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Looking for Alaska by John Green.
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Later, I walked toward the dorm circle beside Alaska. The cicadas hummed their one-note song, just as they had at home in Florida. She turned to me as we made our way through the darkness and said, “When you’re walking at night, do you ever get creeped out and even though it’s silly and embarrassing you just want to run home?”
It seemed too secret and personal to admit to a virtual stranger, but i told her, “Yeah, totally.”
For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and took off, pulling me behind her.
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Looking for Alaska by John Green
HELLOOOOO!
First of all,
:3 Thank you for following this blog!
Secondly, this couple of days i’m going to be posting passages from John Green’s famous book, Looking for Alaska.
Thirdly, thanks ELI SMELLY for promoting! Woooot.
