It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had... - John Green, Looking for Alaska
"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."
"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."
"There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going."
"You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can't remember, because I never knew."
"I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit."
"I must talk, and you must listen, for we are engaged here in the most important pursuit in history: the search for meaning. What is the nature of being a person? What is the best way to go about being a person? How did we come to be, and what will become of us when we are no longer? In short: What are the rules of this game, and how might we best play it?"
"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."