It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only... - John Green, Looking for Alaska
"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."
"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."
"Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do."
"When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books."
"Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died."
"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."
"I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side."