“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.”
― Sharp Objects
― Sharp Objects
“I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
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