“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“There is no imagination in the world. A person like me is basically alone. If I want to live in the same world as other people I have to make a special effort.”
― Mathilda Savitch
― Mathilda Savitch
“I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.”
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“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
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