“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
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“Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― A Walk to Remember
― A Walk to Remember
“What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
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