- “the only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive”
- “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 a hurricane”
- “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”
- “when i look at my room, i see a girl who loves books”
- “françois rabelais. he was a poet. and his last words were "i go to seek a great perhaps." that's why i'm going. so i don't have to wait until i die to start seeking a great perhaps”
- “i may die young, but at least i'll die smart”
- “y'all smoke to enjoy it. i smoke to die”
- “i would always love alaska young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart”
- “it always shocked me when i realized that i wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things”
- “you never get me. that's the whole point”
- “what you must understand about me is that i’m a deeply unhappy person”
- “for she had embodied the great perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps”
- “i know so many last words. but i will never know hers”
- “i'm just scared of ghosts, pudge. and home is full of them”
jul 18 2012 ∞
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