#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."

"When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself."

"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."

"That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them."

"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 go to seek a Great Perhaps."

"If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane."

"At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved."